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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4559
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-4559

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA26623

MLIST
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html

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