CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpackdir function uses fs::metadata to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : devscripts (SUSE-SU-2024:2621-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2621-1 advisory. - CVE-2014-1833: Fixed symlink directory traversal in uupdate bsc861514 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

SUSE CVE-2017-7500

It was found that rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic link to a directory, possibly changing ownership and permissions of an arbitrary directory, and RPM files being placed in an arbitrary destination. An attacker, with write access to a directory ...

nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite

A flaw was found in the npm package "tar" aka node-tar. Extracting tar files that contain both a directory and a symlink with the same name, where the symlink and directory names in the archive entry used backslashes as a path separator, made it possible to bypass node-tar symlink checks on...

RHEL 7 : rh-eclipse-jetty (RHSA-2021:1509)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1509 advisory. Jetty is a 100% Java HTTP Server and Servlet Container. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:...

FreeBSD : arj -- multiple vulnerabilities (b95e5674-b4d6-11e7-b895-0cc47a494882)

Several vulnerabilities: symlink directory traversal, absolute path directory traversal and buffer overflow were discovered in the arj archiver. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML databa...

Fedora 20 : arj-3.10.22-22.fc20 (2015-5546)

Added patch from Debian to avoid free on invalid pointer due to a buffer overflow 1196751, 1207180 - Added patch from Debian for symlink directory traversal 1178824 - Added patch from Debian to fix the directory traversal via //multiple/leading/slash 1178824 Note that Tenable Network Security has...