Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-38511

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via...

CVE-2021-38511

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal...

CVE-2021-38511

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal...

CVE-2021-38511

CVE-2021-38511 affects the Rust tar crate prior to 0.4.36. When a TAR archive contains symlinks, extraction can perform a directory traversal with “..”, potentially creating arbitrary directories. Practical impact is described as partial integrity/authoritative access loss during extraction; expl...