UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8314

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8314
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8314.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8314
Upstream
Published
2017-05-23T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:15Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Directory Traversal in Zip Extraction built-in function in Kodi 17.1 and earlier allows arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file as subtitles.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / kodi

Package

Name
kodi
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/kodi@15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

15.*
15.1+dfsg1-3
15.2+dfsg1-1build1
15.2+dfsg1-3
15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-addons-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-j2me"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-kodi-send"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-ps3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "kodi-eventclients-wiiremote"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8314.json"