CVE-2013-4420

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 20, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2013

Description

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

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731860
DSA-2863vendor-advisory
[libtar] 20150213 Fw: Re: Validation of file namesmailing-list

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