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Medium: perl-Archive-Tar

Description

**Issue Overview:** It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl interpreter.(CVE-2018-12015) **Affected Packages:** perl-Archive-Tar **Issue Correction:** Run _yum update perl-Archive-Tar_ to update your system. **New Packages:** noarch:     perl-Archive-Tar-1.92-3.amzn2.noarch src:     perl-Archive-Tar-1.92-3.amzn2.src ### Additional References Red Hat: [CVE-2018-12015](<https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12015>) Mitre: [CVE-2018-12015](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-12015>)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Amazon Linux 2 perl-archive-tar 1.92-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux 2 perl-archive-tar 1.92-3.amzn2

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