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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-10173: Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar: Directory traversal

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-10173: Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar: Directory traversal

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
02/01/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/06/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-ruby-archive-tar-minitar

References

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