Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 : file-roller vulnerability (USN-1906-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68924

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths.
If a user were tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive, an attacker could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

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

Solution

Update the affected file-roller package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68924

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1906-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 7/17/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:file-roller

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4668

BID: 61008

USN: 1906-1

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