CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4131

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-08-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-08-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar 1.13 • gnu tar 1.13.5 • gnu tar 1.13.11 • gnu tar 1.13.14 • gnu tar 1.13.16 • gnu tar 1.13.17 • gnu tar 1.13.18 • gnu tar 1.13.19 • gnu tar 1.13.25 • gnu tar 1.14 • gnu tar 1.14.90 • gnu tar 1.15 • gnu tar 1.15.1 • gnu tar 1.15.90 • gnu tar 1.15.91 • gnu tar 1.16

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