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[SECURITY] tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:37:46 -0500
- Subject: [SECURITY] tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
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A directory traversal bug has been found in GNU tar.
Patch:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/app-arch/tar/files/tar-1.15.1-alt-contains-dot-dot.patch
More information:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-09.xml
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4131
Yaakov
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