1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4733-1

USN-4733-1: GNOME Autoar vulnerability

Publication date

11 February 2021

Overview

GNOME Autoar could be made to overwrite files.

Releases

Packages

Details

Yiğit Can Yılmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside
of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a
specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in
arbitrary locations, possibly leading to code execution.

Yiğit Can Yılmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside
of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a
specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in
arbitrary locations, possibly leading to code execution.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to 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
20.10 groovy libgnome-autoar-0-0 –  0.2.4-2ubuntu0.1
libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0 –  0.2.4-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal libgnome-autoar-0-0 –  0.2.3-2ubuntu0.1
libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0 –  0.2.3-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic libgnome-autoar-0-0 –  0.2.3-1ubuntu0.1
libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0 –  0.2.3-1ubuntu0.1

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