Engrampa could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
It was discovered that Engrampa incorrectly handled symbolic links when extracting certain archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that Engrampa incorrectly handled symbolic links when extracting certain archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that Engrampa incorrectly handled symbolic links when extracting certain archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that Engrampa incorrectly handled symbolic links when extracting certain archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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