Directory Traversal Affecting kodi package, versions <2:17.1+dfsg1-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-KODI-287553
  • published23 May 2017
  • disclosed23 May 2017

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2017-8314  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 kodi to version 2:17.1+dfsg1-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kodi package and not the kodi package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory Traversal in Zip Extraction built-in function in Kodi 17.1 and earlier allows arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file as subtitles.