Advisories » MGASA-2020-0353

Updated ark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Aug 2020
Modification date: 29 Aug 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-24654

Description

A maliciously crafted TAR archive containing symlink entries would install
files anywhere in the user's home directory upon extraction (CVE-2020-24654).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27214
• https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24654

SRPMS

7/core

• ark-19.04.0-1.2.mga7