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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-28949): PEAR vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 19, 2020
Added
Dec 2, 2020
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-drupal7ubuntu-upgrade-php-pear
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