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

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.82
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:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE LINUX 10.0
  • star >= 1.5a60-5.3
SUSE LINUX 10.1
  • star >= 1.5a70-12.6
SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
SuSE Linux School Server for i386
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
UnitedLinux 1.0
  • tar >= 1.13.25-334
 sled10.x86
core9.s390
sles9-oes.x86
slrs8.x86
sles10.s390x
ul1.s390
ZYPP Patch Nr: 4125
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86_64
Open Enterprise Server
  • tar >= 1.13.25-325.10
 sled10.x86
core9.s390
sles9-oes.x86
slrs8.x86
sles10.s390x
ul1.s390
ZYPP Patch Nr: 4125
SUSE LINUX 10.0
  • tar >= 1.15.1-9.6
SUSE LINUX 10.1
  • tar >= 1.15.1-23.8