CVE-2007-4134

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.

Affected products

• RedHat / fedora7 – 7

References

• MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-23.xml
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26626
• MISChttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26673
• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478797/100/200/threaded
• MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11098
• MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0873.html
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26857
• MISChttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1669
• MISChttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189690
• MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1018646
• VENDOR_ADVISORYftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26672
• MISCftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/AN-1.5a84
• MISChttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00425.html
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27544
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27318