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CVE-2007-4829 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....

MediumCVSS 6.8 EPSS 4.3%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
archivetar project archivetar <= 1.36 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 6.06 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 7.10 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 8.04 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 8.10 No fix listed
debian/perl(Debian:12) < 5.10.0-19 5.10.0-19
debian/perl(Debian:13) < 5.10.0-19 5.10.0-19
debian/perl(Debian:14) < 5.10.0-19 5.10.0-19

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