Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-2863 libtar - directory traversal |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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A directory traversal attack was reported against libtar, a C library formanipulating tar archives. The application does not validate thefilenames inside the tar archive, allowing to extract files in arbitrarypath. An attacker can craft a tar file to override files beyond thetar_extract_glob and tar_extract_all prefix parameter. More info: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2863 |
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