CVE-2007-4131 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-4131 at MITRE

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 299738 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:018, published Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:49:37 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:07 2023