CVE-2007-4829

Medium

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
Product\
PublishedNov 2, 2007
First seenNov 2, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
archive\ \tar_project ≤ v ≤ 1.36—
canonical ubuntu_linux6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10—

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