VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6232

high
Published 2016-08-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
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.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.24.0-1
sid Fixed 5.24.0-1
forky Fixed 5.24.0-1
bullseye Fixed 5.24.0-1
bookworm Fixed 5.24.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
kdekarchives{"endIncluding":"5.24"}

References

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.