vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-12015

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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