CVE-2020-36241

Description

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/issues/7

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3