vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-6321: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 24, 2016
Added
Nov 24, 2016
Modified
Aug 7, 2021

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-tarsuse-upgrade-tar-langsuse-upgrade-tar-rmt
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