USN-3074-1: File Roller vulnerability
8 September 2016
File Roller could be made to delete files.
Releases
Packages
- file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
Details
It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user were
tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker could delete
files outside of the extraction directory.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.