Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package file-roller  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-FILEROLLER-635084
  • published18 Jul 2013
  • disclosed18 Jul 2013

Introduced: 18 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-4668  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file-roller package and not the file-roller package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Directory traversal vulnerability in File Roller 3.6.x before 3.6.4, 3.8.x before 3.8.3, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3, when libarchive is used, allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted archive that is not properly handled in a "Keep directory structure" action, related to fr-archive-libarchive.c and fr-window.c.