Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-36314  

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.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Directory traversal

Description

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.

AVG-1779 file-roller 3.38.0-2 Medium Vulnerable

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/108
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/0bd4a14f3bc8dae7c68469f281da9fddbe9e0d02