Advisories » MGASA-2021-0111

Updated gnome-autoar packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Mar 2021
Modification date: 04 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2020-36241

Description

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 (CVE-2020-36241).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28454
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4733-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36241

SRPMS

7/core

• gnome-autoar-0.2.3-2.1.mga7

8/core

• gnome-autoar-0.2.4-2.1.mga8