vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-6321: tar security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Dec 4, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-tar
Title
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