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	Software Inspectors   Scan Online   Personal (PSI)   Network (NSI 2.0) Solutions For   Security Professionals   Security Vendors Free Solutions For   Open Communities   Journalists & Media Secunia Advisories   Search   Historic Advisories   Listed By Product   Listed By Vendor   Statistics / Graphs   Secunia Research   Report Vulnerability   About Advisories Virus Information   Chronological List   Last 10 Virus Alerts   About Virus Information Secunia Customers   Customer Area CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4131 NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE. Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-4131 Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive. CVE Status: Candidate References: UBUNTU   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-506-1 TRUSTIX   http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ SUSE   http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html ST   1018599 SAID   Secunia Advisory: SA26604   Secunia Advisory: SA26573   Secunia Advisory: SA26590   Secunia Advisory: SA26603   Secunia Advisory: SA26674   Secunia Advisory: SA26673   Secunia Advisory: SA26655   Secunia Advisory: SA26781   Secunia Advisory: SA26822   Secunia Advisory: SA26984   Secunia Advisory: SA27453   Secunia Advisory: SA27861   Secunia Advisory: SA28136   Secunia Advisory: SA28255 REDHAT   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0860.html MISC   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251921 MANDRIVA   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:173 GENTOO   http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-09.xml FREEBSD   http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:10.gtar.asc FEDORA DEBIAN   http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438 CONFIRM   http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-383.htm   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 CERT   http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html BUGTRAQ   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/477865/100/0/threaded   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/477731/100/0/threaded BID   25417 APPLE   http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html Return to the previous page. Secunia PSI Scan | Patch | Track Free Download Secunia Poll Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network? Yes, I do it all the time Yes, but I do it rarely No See Results    Most Popular Advisories 1. Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities 2. Opera for Windows Unspecified Code Execution 3. Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities 4. VLC Media Player WAV Processing Integer Overflow 5. zlib Denial of Service Vulnerability 6. Opera Canvas Functions Information Disclosure 7. UnixWare ReliantHA Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities 8. Fedora update for glib2 9. PCRE pcre_compile.c Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 10. GNOME Glib PCRE pcre_compile.c Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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