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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.841504
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1906-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'file-roller' package(s) announced via the USN-1906-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'file-roller' package(s) announced via the USN-1906-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Yorick Koster discovered that File Roller incorrectly sanitized paths. If a
user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, an attacker
could create and overwrite files outside of the extraction directory.

Affected Software/OS:
'file-roller' package(s) on Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-4668
BugTraq ID: 61008
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61008
Bugtraq: 20130708 [oCERT-2013-001] File Roller path sanitization errors (Google Search)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-07/0039.html
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2013-001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/54351
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:1281 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00095.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1906-1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG

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