6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.018 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.8%
Star is a tar-like archiver. It saves multiple files into a single tape or
disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Star
includes multi-volume support, automatic archive format detection and ACL
support.
A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A
malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to
arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access.
(CVE-2007-4134)
Red Hat would like to thank Robert Buchholz for reporting this issue.
As well, this update adds the command line argument “-…” to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract files
containing “/…/” in their pathname.
Users of star should upgrade to this updated package, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | x86_64 | star | < 1.5a25-8 | star-1.5a25-8.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | star | < 1.5a25-8 | star-1.5a25-8.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | ppc | star | < 1.5a08-5 | star-1.5a08-5.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | star | < 1.5a25-8 | star-1.5a25-8.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | star | < 1.5a75-2 | star-1.5a75-2.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | star | < 1.5a08-5 | star-1.5a08-5.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | star | < 1.5a08-5 | star-1.5a08-5.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | star | < 1.5a08-5 | star-1.5a08-5.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | src | star | < 1.5a75-2 | star-1.5a75-2.src.rpm |
RedHat | any | x86_64 | star | < 1.5a75-2 | star-1.5a75-2.x86_64.rpm |