Recently modified low severity vulnerabilities for "gnu tar"

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1.13.19

1.13.25

GNU tarFlaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see…

Risk 14

Severity

2.1

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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).

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Source: Red Hat

First published (updated )

CVE-2001-1267

GNU tarPath Traversal

Risk 15

Severity

2.6

Path Traversal

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".

First published (updated )

CVE-2005-1918

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