CVE-2021-37712

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.18, 5.0.10, and 6.1.9 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achiev...

CVE-2021-37712

A flaw was found in the npm package "tar" aka node-tar. Extracting tar files that contain two directories and a symlink with names containing Unicode values that normalize to the same value on Windows systems made it possible to bypass node-tar symlink checks on directories. This allows an...

Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links

Overview Impact Arbitrary File Creation, Arbitrary File Overwrite, Arbitrary Code Execution node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieved by ensuring that extracted directories are not symlinks...

Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links

Impact Arbitrary File Creation, Arbitrary File Overwrite, Arbitrary Code Execution node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieved by ensuring that extracted directories are not symlinks. Additionally, in...

GHSA-QQ89-HQ3F-393P Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links

Impact Arbitrary File Creation, Arbitrary File Overwrite, Arbitrary Code Execution node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieved by ensuring that extracted directories are not symlinks. Additionally, in...

CVE-2021-37712

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.18, 5.0.10, and 6.1.9 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achiev...

CVE-2021-37712 Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.18, 5.0.10, and 6.1.9 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achiev...

PT-2021-7037 · Npm +6 · Node-Tar +6

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: node-tar versions prior to 4.4.18 node-tar versions prior to 5.0.10 node-tar versions prior to 6.1.9 Description: The issue is related to the handling of tar archives by the node-tar module, which can lead to arbitrary file creation, overwrit...

CVE-2021-37712

CVE-2021-37712 affects the npm package node-tar (tar). The issue arises from insufficient symlink protection during extraction: a directory cache could be poisoned by a misrepresented path when a tar contains a directory and a symlink whose names Unicode-normalize to the same value, bypassing che...

GHSA-W74J-V8XH-3W5H Reference binding to nullptr in unicode encoding

Impact An attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in tf.rawops.UnicodeEncode: python import tensorflow as tf from tensorflow.python.ops import genstringops genstringops.unicodeencode inputvalues=, inputsplits=, outputencoding='UTF-8', errors='ignore',...

python-pip: Incorrect handling of unicode separators in git references

A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity...

RHEL 7 : rh-python38 (RHSA-2021:3254)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3254 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level...

PT-2021-5779 · Ntfs-3G +7 · Ntfs-3G +7

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: NTFS-3G versions prior to 2021.8.22 Description: A heap buffer overflow can occur when a specially crafted unicode string is supplied in an NTFS image, potentially allowing for code execution. This issue may also enable an attacker to access...

The vulnerability of Firefox ESR, Firefox, and the email client Thunderbird relates to the issue of operations outside the buffer during the conversion of UTF-8 strings to Unicode. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of Firefox ESR, Firefox, and the email client Thunderbird is related to the issue of operations going beyond the buffer boundaries during the conversion from UTF-8 to Unicode. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Trend-spotting email techniques: How modern phishing emails hide in plain sight

With the massive volume of emails sent each day, coupled with the many methods that attackers use to blend in, identifying the unusual and malicious is more challenging than ever. An obscure Unicode character in a few emails is innocuous enough, but when a pattern of emails containing this obscur...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rust-unicode-linebreak-0.1.1-2.fc34

Implementation of the Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rust-unicode-truncate-0.2.0-2.fc34

Unicode-aware algorithm to pad or truncate str in terms of displayed width...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-unicode-linebreak (FEDORA-2021-3cf88e44b4)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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 This program is free software; you can...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-unicode-truncate (FEDORA-2021-3cf88e44b4)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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 This program is free software; you can...

PYSEC-2021-289

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in tf.rawops.UnicodeEncode. The implementation reads the first dimension of the inputsplits tensor before validating that th...