CVE-2001-1267

The CVE-2001-1267 entry describes a directory traversal in GNU tar

CVE-2005-1918

CVE-2005-1918 is a continuation of the GNU tar directory traversal issue. It stems from an incorrect optimization in the backported patch used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and the 2.1 line, which allowed a crafted tar file (likely using "/../" sequences with a leading "/") to overwrite arbitrary...