vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12015: Link Following

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Jul 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-perl
Title
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