1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1906-1

USN-1906-1: File Roller vulnerability

Publication date

16 July 2013

Overview

File Roller could be made to create or overwrite files.

Releases

Packages

Details

Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths. If a
user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker
could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths. If a
user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker
could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
13.04 raring file-roller –  3.6.3-1ubuntu4.1
12.10 quantal file-roller –  3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.2

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