Description
In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html ↗
- https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd ↗
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857 ↗
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJOZ6YRNPZX5MJGVBMOCOA7N6Z4EU2OK/ ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-06 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-06 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html ↗