CVE-2020-36314
lowpriority · track · 16EPSS 0.006 · 49 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736.
remediations
Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.
A vendor fix is available.
- Fixedfile-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debuginfo-0:3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debuginfo-0:3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debuginfo-0:3.28.1-4.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debuginfo-0:3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debugsource-0:3.28.1-4.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debugsource-0:3.28.1-4.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debugsource-0:3.28.1-4.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179 - Fixedfile-roller-debugsource-0:3.28.1-4.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4179
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affected products (26)
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advisories (1)
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- RHSA-2021:4179Red Hat Security Advisory: file-roller security update2021-11-09csaf · redhat_csafUS
An update for file-roller is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
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references (15)
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- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/e970f4966bf388f6e7c277357c8b186c645683aecnnvd
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/108cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KJBZVCHQ4SSX2JAJZVJ5J4P3GEMXJ75/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36314cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162339/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4927-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164835/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2021-4179-02.htmlcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/File-Roller-information-disclosure-35173cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.1412cnnvd
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