Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-4829: Archive::Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/02/2007
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-perl-core-archive-tar
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