GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-386

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published November 17, 2016

Harry Sintonen discovered that GNU tar does not properly handle member names containing '..', thus allowing an attacker to bypass the path names specified on the command line and replace files and directories in the target directory (CVE-2016-6321).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	tar	0 (affected), 1.28-3.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2016-6321

References

Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

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