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 Post subject: [Fixed]Perl module Archive::Tar < 1.40, Directory Traversal
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:35 am 
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According to Redhat bugzilla and GLSA-200812-10, CVE-2007-4829, a user-assisted remote attack against Archive::Tar isn't fixed before version 1.40:

SecurityFocus wrote:
Perl Archive::Tar module is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to validate user-supplied data.

A successful attack can allow the attacker to overwrite files on a computer in the context of the user running the affected application. Successful exploits may aid in further attacks.

Note that all applications using Perl Archive::Tar module may be affected.


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517

In our perl 5.10 package in SNAPSHOT, the Archive::Tar version is 1.38...

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 Post subject: Re: Perl module Archive::Tar < 1.40, Directory Traversal
PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:37 am 
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Same like mplayer issue ;)
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 Post subject: Re: Perl module Archive::Tar < 1.40, Directory Traversal
PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:49 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Perl module Archive::Tar < 1.40, Directory Traversal
PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:04 pm 
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