Published: 20/02/2014 Updated: 20/02/2014

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 516

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) tar_extract_glob and (2) tar_extract_all functions in libtar 1.2.20 and previous versions allow remote malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a crafted tar file.

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feep libtar 1.2.16
feep libtar 1.2.17
feep libtar 1.2.18
feep libtar 1.2.19
feep libtar 1.2.11
feep libtar 1.2.14
feep libtar 1.2.13
feep libtar 1.2.15
feep libtar

Debian Bug report logs - #731860 libtar: CVE-2013-4420: directory traversal when extracting archives Package: src:libtar; Maintainer for src:libtar is Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debianorg>; Reported by: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debianorg> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security F ...

A directory traversal attack was reported against libtar, a C library for manipulating tar archives The application does not validate the filenames inside the tar archive, allowing to extract files in arbitrary path An attacker can craft a tar file to override files beyond the tar_extract_glob and tar_extract_all prefix parameter For the oldstab ...

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) tar_extract_glob and (2) tar_extract_all functions in libtar 1220 and earlier allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a (dot dot) in a crafted tar file ...

CWE-22 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731860 https://lists.feep.net:8080/pipermail/libtar/2014-February/000403.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2863 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731860 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4420 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2863

CVE-2013-4420

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