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HistoryMar 15, 2021 - 12:00 a.m.

GLib vulnerability

2021-03-1500:00:00
ubuntu.com
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6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.9%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 20.10
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

  • glib2.0 - GLib library of C routines

Details

It was discovered that GLib incorrectly handled certain symlinks when
replacing files. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting
a specially crafted file with File Roller, a remote attacker could possibly
create files outside of the intended directory.

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