Executive Summary

Summary
Title File Roller vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3074-1 First vendor Publication 2016-09-08
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-09-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

File Roller could be made to delete files.

Software Description: - file-roller: archive manager for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker could delete files outside of the extraction directory.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
file-roller 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
file-roller 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3074-1
CVE-2016-7162, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1171236

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3074-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 20
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-10-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ad479f89902011e6a59014dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-20 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1097.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3074-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2016-09-28 21:26:02
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-26 21:25:39
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-10 13:28:00
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-09 00:22:40
  • First insertion