CVE-2002-1216

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-28 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:24:00

Affected Software

GNU tar 1.13.19

1.13.19

GNU tar

References

20020928 GNU tar (Re: Allot Netenforcer problems, GNU TAR flaw)

archive-extraction-directory-traversal(10224)

Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2006:219

OpenPKG-SA-2006.038

RHSA-2002:096

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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