vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-6321

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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