Product Errata

RLSA-2020:4820

Moderate: file-roller security update

Topic

An update is available for file-roller.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar or zip files.

Security Fix(es):

* file-roller: path traversal vulnerability via a specially crafted filename contained in malicious archive (CVE-2019-16680)

* file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory (CVE-2020-11736)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 11/3/2020

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references