PT-2007-5966 · Perl+1 · Archive Tar+1

Tomas Hoger · Published 2007-11-02 · Updated 2018-08-08 · CVE-2007-4829

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Archive::Tar Perl module versions 1.36 and earlier

Description: The issue 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.

Recommendations: For Archive::Tar Perl module versions 1.36 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.36 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4829

RHSA-2010:0505

RHSA-2010_0505

Affected Products

Archive Tar

Red Hat

References · 21

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-4829 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4829 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/40410 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4829 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0505 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 · Note