CVE-2019-16680: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Gnome File-Roller: before 3.29.91 (fixed in 3.29.91)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2019-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.