GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-313

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published September 21, 2016

It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker could delete files outside of the extraction directory.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	file-roller	0 (affected), 3.14.2-1.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2016-7162

References

Updated file-roller packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated file-roller packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated file-roller packages fix security vulnerability

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