Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-12015

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via...

perl: Directory traversal in Archive::Tar

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...

SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 Security update for perl

This update for perl fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-12015: The Archive::Tar module allowed remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism and overwrite arbitrary files bsc1096718...

SUSE-SU-2018:1977-1 Security update for perl

This update for perl fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-12015: The Archive::Tar module allowed remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism and overwrite arbitrary files bsc1096718...