Ubuntu alert USN-4733-1 (gnome-autoar)

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Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
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[USN-4733-1] GNOME Autoar vulnerability
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Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:21:11 -0500
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4733-1
February 11, 2021

gnome-autoar vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 20.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

GNOME Autoar could be made to overwrite files.

Software Description:
- gnome-autoar: Archive integration support for GNOME

Details:

Yiğit Can Yılmaz 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.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 20.10:
  libgnome-autoar-0-0             0.2.4-2ubuntu0.1
  libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0         0.2.4-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libgnome-autoar-0-0             0.2.3-2ubuntu0.1
  libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0         0.2.3-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libgnome-autoar-0-0             0.2.3-1ubuntu0.1
  libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0         0.2.3-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4733-1
  CVE-2020-36241

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-autoar/0.2.4-2...
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-autoar/0.2.3-2...
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-autoar/0.2.3-1...

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