CVE-2016-6232
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in KArchive before 5.24, as used in KDE Frameworks, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a filename in an archive file, related to KNewsstuff downloads.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.24.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.24.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.24.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.24.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.24.0-1 |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| kde | karchives | {"endIncluding":"5.24"} | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00000.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3643
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/16/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/16/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91806
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3042-1
- https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=karchive.git&a=commit&h=0cb243f64eef45565741b27364cece7d5c349c37
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4100-1/
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160724-1.txt
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6232.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6232
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.