A flaw was found in file-roller. When opening or extracting a malicious 7z or RAR archive containing a file entry with an excessively long path, file-roller's progress-line parsing copies the path into a fixed-size stack buffer using an unbounded string copy. This can trigger a stack buffer overflow and cause file-roller to terminate, resulting in a denial of service. To exploit this flaw, a victim must open or extract the crafted archive using file-roller.

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Avoid opening or extracting untrusted 7z or RAR archives with file-roller until an updated package is installed.

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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in file-roller. When opening or extracting a malicious 7z or RAR archive containing a file entry with an excessively long path, file-roller's progress-line parsing copies the path into a fixed-size stack buffer using an unbounded string copy. This can trigger a stack buffer overflow and cause file-roller to terminate, resulting in a denial of service. To exploit this flaw, a victim must open or extract the crafted archive using file-roller.
Title File-roller: file-roller: stack buffer overflow in parse_progress_line for 7z and rar handlers
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-120
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-25T07:21:38.573Z

Reserved: 2026-08-24T08:53:42.508Z

Link: CVE-2026-78322

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-25T08:18:10.583

Modified: 2026-08-25T08:18:10.583

Link: CVE-2026-78322

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-25T08:30:04Z

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