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CVE-2007-4829

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.

Published

2007-11-02T16:46:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	archive\	\	≤ 1.36	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	6.06	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	7.10	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	8.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	8.10	Yes

References

http://osvdb.org/40410 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/27539 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 Permissions Required ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 Broken Link ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/40410 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/27539 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 Permissions Required (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)