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star directory traversal vulnerability

🗓️ 04 Sep 2007 15:00:00Reported by RedHatType 
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Directory traversal in star extract.c prior to 1.5a84 enables remote file overwrite via //.. in tar archive symlinks.

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ATTACKERKB		CVE-2007-4558
28 Aug 200701:17
–attackerkb
BDU FSTEC		The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.
28 Apr 201500:00
–bdu_fstec
BDU FSTEC		The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.
28 Apr 201500:00
–bdu_fstec
BDU FSTEC		The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.
28 Apr 201500:00
–bdu_fstec
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : star (CESA-2007:0873)
5 Sep 200700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 7 : star-1.5a84-2.fc7 (2007-1852)
6 Nov 200700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		GLSA-200710-23 : Star: Directory traversal vulnerability
25 Oct 200700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / star (ELSA-2007-0873)
12 Jul 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : star (RHSA-2007:0873)
5 Sep 200700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Scientific Linux Security Update : star on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64
1 Aug 201200:00
–nessus
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OSOS VersionArchitecturePackagePackage VersionFilename
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3i386star0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3ia64star0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3ppcstar0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.ppc.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3s390star0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.s390.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3s390xstar0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux3x86_64star0:1.5a08-5star-0:1.5a08-5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux4i386star0:1.5a25-8star-0:1.5a25-8.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux4ia64star0:1.5a25-8star-0:1.5a25-8.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux4ppcstar0:1.5a25-8star-0:1.5a25-8.ppc.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux4s390star0:1.5a25-8star-0:1.5a25-8.s390.rpm
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CVSS 26.8
EPSS0.03009
directory traversalstar tooltar archive symlinksremote overwriteversion before 1.5a84
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