RHEL 8 : file-roller (RHSA-2020:4820)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142386

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for file-roller.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4820 advisory.

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL file-roller package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4820.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142386

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4820.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11736

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16680

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:file-roller, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16680, CVE-2020-11736

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2020:4820

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