CVE-2005-1918 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1918
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Description: The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html ST 1015655 SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18988 Secunia Advisory: SA19130 Secunia Advisory: SA19183 Secunia Advisory: SA20397 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0195.html FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/430297/100/0/threaded CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-110.htm BID 5834

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