CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4829
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-02
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• archive\ \ tar project (<= 1.36)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/40410 Broken Link
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27539 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 Third Party Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/40410 Broken Link
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27539 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 Third Party Advisory