Definition

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11658

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

Family:

unix

Status:

ACCEPTED

Platform(s):

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Oracle Linux 4
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5

Class:

vulnerability

Reference(s):

CVE-2007-4829

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