Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-31566
CVE-2021-31566
Description
An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system.
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Affected products
12- osv-coords11 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/bsdtarpkg:rpm/almalinux/libarchivepkg:rpm/almalinux/libarchive-develpkg:rpm/opensuse/bsdtar&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/libarchive&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/libarchive&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP4
< 3.3.3-3.el8_5+ 10 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.el8_5
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.el8_5
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.el8_5
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.2-150200.4.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.2-150200.4.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.2-150200.4.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.9.1
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