Input validation

An issue in the handling of symlinks was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5. A malicious app with root privileges may be able to modify the contents of system files...

CVE-2022-26688

CVE-2022-26688 refers to a vulnerability in handling of symlinks in PackageKit on macOS. The issue could allow a malicious, root-privileged app to modify contents of system files, representing a local privilege-escalation risk. Apple patched this in Security Update 2022-003 for Catalina and in ma...

CVE-2022-26688

An issue in the handling of symlinks was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5. A malicious app with root privileges may be able to modify the contents of system files...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30321

go-getter up to 1.5.11 and 2.0.2 allowed arbitrary host access via go-getter path traversal, symlink processing, and command injection flaws. Fixed in 1.6.1 and 2.1.0...

GSD-2022-1002390 cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks

cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.14.276 by commit...

ALSA-2022:0892 Moderate: libarchive security update

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file...

USN-5291-1 libarchive vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to change modes, times, ACLs, and flags on arbitrary files. CVE-2021-23177, CVE-2021-31566 It was...

CVE-2021-30681

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-004 Mojave, iOS 14.6 and iPadOS 14.6, Security Update 2021-003 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.4, watchOS 7.5. A malicious application may ...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-37712

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.18, 5.0.10, and 6.1.9 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achiev...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-37701

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.16, 5.0.8, and 6.1.7 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieve...

CVE-2021-30855

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, macOS Big Sur 11.6. An application may be able to access...

CVE-2021-30855

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, macOS Big Sur 11.6. An application may be able to access...

CVE-2021-30855

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, macOS Big Sur 11.6. An application may be able to access...

USN-4764-1: GLib vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description 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...

MGASA-2021-0162 Updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerability

An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. When gfilereplace is used with GFILECREATEREPLACEDESTINATION to replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also creates the target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have security relevance if the symlink is...

USN-5102-2 mercurial vulnerabilities

USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4764-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4764-1 glib2.0 vulnerability

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...

CVE-2019-6238

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra. Processing a maliciously crafted package may lead to arbitrary...

CVE-2019-6238

CVE-2019-6238 involves a validation issue in the handling of symlinks when processing certain packages (notably in the xar component on macOS). The underlying root cause is improper validation of symlinks, which could allow a maliciously crafted package to lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple ...