Directory Traversal Affecting gtksourceview3-devel package, versions <0:3.24.8-1.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GTKSOURCEVIEW3DEVEL-5270109
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Jul 2018

Introduced: 13 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14036  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 gtksourceview3-devel to version 0:3.24.8-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3140.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gtksourceview3-devel package and not the gtksourceview3-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory Traversal with ../ sequences occurs in AccountsService before 0.6.50 because of an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() in user.c.