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SUSE: CVE-2018-12015: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-12015: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/07/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/18/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-perl
  • suse-upgrade-perl-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-core-db_file
  • suse-upgrade-perl-doc
  • suse-upgrade-perl-module-build
  • suse-upgrade-perl-test-simple
  • suse-upgrade-perl-x86

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1977-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2447-1
  • USN-3684-1
  • USN-3684-2
  • DSA-4226
  • CVE-2018-12015
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