fkie_cve-2007-4131
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-08-25 00:17
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 5.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 5.0 | |
| rpath | rpath_linux | 1 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.5 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.11 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.14 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.16 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.17 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.18 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.19 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.13.25 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.14 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.14.90 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.15 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.15.1 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.15.90 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.15.91 | |
| gnu | tar | 1.16 |
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