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CVE-2007-4134

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Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11098

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1669

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189690

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478797/100/200/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0873.html

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00425.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-23.xml

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1018646

http://secunia.com/advisories/27544

http://secunia.com/advisories/27318

http://secunia.com/advisories/26857

http://secunia.com/advisories/26673

http://secunia.com/advisories/26672

http://secunia.com/advisories/26626

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-30

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01379

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