CVE-2007-4829
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Path traversal
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://osvdb.org/40410
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517Advisory
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27539Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33116Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33314Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355Advisory