National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4829
Original release date:11/02/2007
Last revised:03/03/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/08/2007)
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The Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider this bug to be a security issue. It is not suggested behavior to extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection of the archive contents.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021
External Source: XF
Name: perl-archivetar-directory-traversal(38285)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-700-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-700-1
External Source: BID
Name: 26355
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200812-10
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3755
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33314
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33116
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27539
External Source: MISC
Name: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380
External Source: MISC
Name: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 40410