PT-2016-6805 · Kde+2 · Archive+2

Andreas Cord-Landwehr · Published 2016-07-18 · Updated 2019-08-16 · CVE-2016-6232

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KArchive versions prior to 5.24

Description A directory traversal issue allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a filename in an archive file. This is related to KNewsstuff downloads.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.24, update to version 5.24 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of archive files from untrusted sources until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6232

DLA-570-1

DSA-3643-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:1884-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2223-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1884-1

USN-3042-1

USN-4100-1

Affected Products

Archive

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 31

• 🔥 https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160724-1.txt · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4100-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4100-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3042-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2223-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00023.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6232 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3643-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6232 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:1884-1 · Vendor Advisory