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Ubuntu: USN-4654-1 (CVE-2020-28949): PEAR vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4654-1 (CVE-2020-28949): PEAR vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/19/2020
Created
12/04/2020
Added
12/02/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-php-pear

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