CVE-2013-4668: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in File Roller 3.6.x before 3.6.4, 3.8.x before 3.8.3, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3, when libarchive is used, allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted archive that is not properly handled in a "Keep directory structure" action, related to fr-archive-libarchive.c and fr-window.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.10 only; version 13.04 only
• File Roller Project File Roller: from 3.6.0, before 3.6.4 (fixed in 3.6.4); from 3.8.0, before 3.8.3 (fixed in 3.8.3); from 3.9.1, before 3.9.3 (fixed in 3.9.3)

Published 2013-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.