RHSA-2020:4820 — Security Advisory

An update for file-roller is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar or zip files.

Security Fix(es):

• file-roller: path traversal vulnerability via a specially crafted filename contained in malicious archive (CVE-2019-16680)

• file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory (CVE-2020-11736)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.