Vulnerability CVE-2007-4134
Published: 2007-08-30   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Fedora 

 References:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/AN-1.5a84
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018646
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-23.xml
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00425.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0873.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478797/100/200/threaded
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189690
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1669
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11098
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