Ubuntu: USN-4777-1 (CVE-2015-8860): node-tar vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
01/23/2017
03/29/2023
03/22/2023
03/22/2023
Description
The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-node-tar
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