Fedora 27 : perl-Archive-Tar (2018-10ae521efa)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110597
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VPR Score: 4.4

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes CVE-2018-12015 vulnerability (a directory traversal). It also fixes creating a file with a trailing white space on the file name. It also allows to archive absolute path names and it speeds up extracting large archives.

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Solution

Update the affected perl-Archive-Tar package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-10ae521efa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110597

File Name: fedora_2018-10ae521efa.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

VPR Score: 4.4

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-Archive-Tar, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12015

FEDORA: 2018-10ae521efa

IAVA: 2018-A-0407-S