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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2002-0399

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2002-0399

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/10/2002
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-tar

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