vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-10173: ruby-archive-tar-minitar, ruby-minitar -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Feb 1, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-ruby-archive-tar-minitardebian-upgrade-ruby-minitar
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