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Unscored USN-4461-1 1 CVE

ark vulnerability

Published Aug 18, 2020 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Dominik Penner discovered that Ark did not properly sanitize zip archive
files before performing extraction. An attacker could use this to construct
a malicious zip archive that, when opened, would create files outside the
extraction directory.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS ark 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS ark 4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-16116