Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package file-roller  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1904-FILEROLLER-612390
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed21 Sept 2019

Introduced: 21 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16680  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

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.

An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.