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-4139-1 First vendor Publication 2019-09-25
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-09-25
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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

File Roller could be made to overwrite sensitive files if it received a specially crafted TAR file.

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

Details:

It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled certain TAR files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite sensitive files during extraction.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
file-roller 3.28.0-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
file-roller 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.3

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4139-1
CVE-2019-16680

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.28.0-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/3.16.5-0ubuntu1.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4139-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2

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Date Informations
2019-09-25 17:19:14
  • First insertion