USN-4937-1: GNOME Autoar vulnerability

6 May 2021

GNOME Autoar could be made to overwrite files.

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Ondrej Holy discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the
intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially
crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in arbitrary
locations, possibly leading to code execution.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

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