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GSD-2016-10173

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2016-08-22 00:00
Details
Minitar allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename. Analogous vulnerabilities for unzip and tar: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-1268/ and http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-1267/ Credit: ecneladis
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CVE-2016-10173
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