CVE-2007-4829 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4829
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38285 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27539 Secunia Advisory: SA33314 Secunia Advisory: SA33116 OSVDB 40410 MISC http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml CONFIRM BID 26355

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