CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-6232.md

CVE-2016-6232

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3042-1
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160724-1.txt

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.