CVE-2016-6232

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
KDE Karchives: through 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
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00000.html

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