vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-12015: ELSA-2019-2097: perl-Archive-Tar security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Aug 15, 2019
Modified
Jan 7, 2025

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.
It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl interpreter.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-archive-tar
Title
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