vulnerability

Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-12015: Vulnerability in Perl

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Feb 17, 2022

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.

Solutions

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