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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-60

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-60
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published February 20, 2017
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry. (CVE-2016-10173) Moreover the updated packages replace deprecated require_gem by gem to make minitar work.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiaruby-archive-tar-minitar0 (affected), 0.5.2-14.2.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected), 0.5.2-14.2.mga5 (unaffected)
Mageiaendless-sky0 (affected), 0.9.8-1.mga6 (unaffected)

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