Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title File Roller vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1906-1 First vendor Publication 2013-07-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-07-16
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 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

File Roller could be made to create or overwrite files.

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

Details:

Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
file-roller 3.6.3-1ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
file-roller 3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1906-1
CVE-2013-4668

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.6.3-1ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1906-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18391
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18391
Title: USN-1906-1 -- file-roller vulnerability
Description: File Roller could be made to create or overwrite files.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1906-1
CVE-2013-4668
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): file-roller
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-620.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-12653.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1906-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-12667.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:02:17
  • Multiple Updates
2013-07-19 21:21:43
  • Multiple Updates
2013-07-18 21:22:02
  • Multiple Updates
2013-07-16 17:18:29
  • First insertion