Updated gnome-autoar packages fix a security vulnerability
Publication date: 23 Jun 2021Modification date: 23 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-28650
Description
gnome-autoar: directory traversal during extraction because it lacks a check
of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations
(CVE-2021-28650).
Also the previous update (Bug 28454) introduced a regression, fixed here.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28884
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28454
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4733-2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/2T2WNK5MCCXX7Y5LGNP6SJYIBL7ADKHD/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28650
SRPMS
7/core
- gnome-autoar-0.3.1-1.mga7
8/core
- gnome-autoar-0.3.1-1.mga8