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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6321

Directory traversal vulnerability in the safernamesuffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the filename parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER...

CVE-2016-6321

Directory traversal vulnerability in the safernamesuffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the filename parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER. Mitigation...

GNU tar 1.29 Extract Pathname Bypass

---------------- t2'16 special vulnerability release ----------------- Vulnerability: POINTYFEATHER aka Tar extract pathname bypass Credits: Harry Sintonen / FSC1V Cyber Security Services Date: 2016-10-27 Impact: File overwrite in certain situations Classifier: Full spectrum cyber CVSS: 4.3.2...

libarchive security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:1850 An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

Amanda 3.3.1 amstar Command Injection

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native utilities and formats e.g. dump...

PT-2016-3297 · Gnu +3 · Gnu Tar +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU tar versions 1.14 through 1.29 Description: The issue is related to a directory traversal vulnerability in the safer name suffix function. This vulnerability might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and writ...

GNU Tar and libarchive Out-of-Bounds Memory Corruption Vulnerability

GNU Tar is a set of tools for creating tar-formatted files; libarchive is a multi-format archive and compression library. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in GNU Tar and libarchive, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to crash an application by submitting a specific request...

GNU Tar 1.1x GNUTYPE_NAMES Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235/info GNU Tar is prone to a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to place files and overwrite files in arbitrary locations on a vulnerable computer. These issues present themselves when the application processes...

GNU TAR <= 1.15.91 and CPIO <= 2.5.90 safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445/info GNU's tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the 'alloca' function. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to crash the affected utilities...

Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / tar (ELSA-2007-0860)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0860 advisory. 1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4 - CVE-2007-4131 tar directory traversal vulnerability 251921 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : tar (ELSA-2006-0749)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2006:0749 : Updated tar packages that fix a path traversal flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tar on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. CVE-2007-4131 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text i...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201111-11 (tar)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201111-11. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201111-11 (tar)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201111-11. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

GLSA-201111-11 : GNU Tar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201111-11 GNU Tar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code GNU Tar is vulnerable to a boundary error in the rmtread function in lib/rtapelib.c, which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact : A remote attacker could...

GNU Tar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GNU Tar is a utility to create archives as well as add and extract files from archives. Description GNU Tar is vulnerable to a boundary error in the rmtread function in lib/rtapelib.c, which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice the user to loa...

CentOS Update for tar CESA-2010:0141 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of tar OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for tar CESA-2010:0141 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Mac OS X Security Update 2007-009

The remote host is missing Security Update 2007-009. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 LSS Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

Mac OS X Security Update 2007-009

The remote host is missing Security Update 2007-009. One or more of the following components are affected: Address Book CFNetwork ColorSync Core Foundation CUPS Desktop Services Flash Player Plug-in GNU Tar iChat IO Storage Family Launch Services Mail perl python Quick Look ruby Safari Safari RSS...