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Perl Archive::Tar Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27539
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Popularity: 5,276 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Archive::Tar 1.x (module for Perl)

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Do not use Archive::Tar to extract untrusted tar archives.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Jonathan Smith, rPath

Original Advisory:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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