CVE-2021-31566
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2021-31566 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2022-08-23 16:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2024-03-27 16:04:00 UTC |
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| Description | An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge |
MISC |
access.redhat.com |
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| [SECURITY] Processing fixup entries may follow symbolic links · Issue #1566 · libarchive/libarchive · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
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| [SECURITY] [DLA 3202-1] libarchive security update |
MLIST |
lists.debian.org |
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| 2024237 – (CVE-2021-31566) CVE-2021-31566 libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while extracting an archive |
MISC |
bugzilla.redhat.com |
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| Do not follow symlinks when processing the fixup list · libarchive/libarchive@b41daec · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 159709 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libarchive (ELSA-2022-0892)
- 179253 Debian Security Update for libarchive (DLA 2987-1)
- 180499 Debian Security Update for libarchive (CVE-2021-31566)
- 181241 Debian Security Update for libarchive (DLA 3202-1)
- 198669 Ubuntu Security Notification for libarchive Vulnerabilities (USN-5291-1)
- 240147 Red Hat Update for libarchive (RHSA-2022:0892)
- 282426 Fedora Security Update for libarchive (FEDORA-2022-9bb794c5f5)
- 354321 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : ALAS2022-2022-201
- 354419 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : ALAS2022-2022-059
- 354576 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : ALAS-2022-201
- 355055 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : AL2012-2022-379
- 355173 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : ALAS2023-2023-071
- 356757 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libarchive : ALAS2-2023-2374
- 376502 Cygwin libarchive Package Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
- 377362 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libarchive (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0019)
- 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
- 378883 Splunk Enterprise August Third Party Package Updates (SVD-2023-0808)
- 501419 Alpine Linux Security Update for libarchive
- 671424 EulerOS Security Update for libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1353)
- 671445 EulerOS Security Update for libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1430)
- 671481 EulerOS Security Update for libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1451)
- 671500 EulerOS Security Update for libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1490)
- 671522 EulerOS Security Update for libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-1509)
- 710601 Gentoo Linux libarchive Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-26)
- 752783 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libarchive (SUSE-SU-2022:3936-1)
- 752785 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libarchive (SUSE-SU-2022:3935-1)
- 940470 AlmaLinux Security Update for libarchive (ALSA-2022:0892)
- 960713 Rocky Linux Security Update for libarchive (RLSA-2022:0892)
