Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200612-10 (tar)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200612-10. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200612-10 : Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200612-10 Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability Tar does not properly extract archive elements using the GNUTYPENAMES record name, allowing files to be created at arbitrary locations using symlinks. Once a symlink is extracted,...