First published: Thu Jul 12 2001(Updated: )
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a .. (dot dot).
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Ubuntu tar | <=1.13.19 |
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CVE-2001-1267 has a moderate severity level due to its potential to allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
To fix CVE-2001-1267, update to a version of GNU tar later than 1.13.19.
Local users who have access to extract tar files using GNU tar versions 1.13.19 and earlier are affected by CVE-2001-1267.
Any system running GNU tar version 1.13.19 or earlier is vulnerable to CVE-2001-1267.
The impact of CVE-2001-1267 allows local users to potentially overwrite system files, which could lead to a compromise.