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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0032-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2020-36314: Fixed directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory     (bsc#1189131)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4179 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-36314)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the file-roller packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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. (CVE-2020-36314)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4179 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-36314)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4179 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory     (incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736) (CVE-2020-36314)

    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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:4179 advisory.

  - file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory     (incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736) (CVE-2020-36314)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4927-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to expose sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
213546	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : file-roller (SUSE-SU-2025:0032-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
184667	Rocky Linux 8 : file-roller (RLSA-2021:4179)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	low
161586	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : file-roller (EulerOS-SA-2022-1717)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
160107	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : file-roller (EulerOS-SA-2022-1530)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
157683	AlmaLinux 8 : file-roller (ALSA-2021:4179)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	low
155169	RHEL 8 : file-roller (RHSA-2021:4179)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low
155084	CentOS 8 : file-roller (CESA-2021:4179)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	low
148987	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : File Roller vulnerability (USN-4927-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	low

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