vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36241: GNOME Autoar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 5, 2021
Added
May 28, 2021
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-arch-gnome-autoar
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