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SUSE: CVE-2016-10173: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Feb 10, 2017
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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

suse-upgrade-ruby2-1-rubygem-archive-tar-minitar
Title
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