CVE-2013-4420 (GCVE-0-2013-4420)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-02-20 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 16:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) tar_extract_glob and (2) tar_extract_all functions in libtar 1.2.20 and earlier allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a crafted tar file.
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