CVE-2007-4134 in Fedora

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 08/02/2007
• Disclosure: 08/30/2007
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-22 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.3
• EPSS: 0.02032
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4134
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4134
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-4134/