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.
Published: 2007-11-02
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-4810 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-700-1 Perl vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:08:33.734Z

Reserved: 2007-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4829

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-02T16:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-4829

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4829 - Bugzilla

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