Gentoo: GLSA-200612-10 Normal: Tar Directory Traversal Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: December 11, 2006 Bugs: #155901 ID: 200612-10

Synopsis ======= Tar is vulnerable to directory traversal possibly allowing for the overwriting of arbitrary files.
Background ========= The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/tar < 1.16-r2 >= 1.16-r2
========== Tar does not properly extract archive elements using the GNUTYPE_NAMES record name, allowing files to be created at arbitrary locations using symlinks. Once a symlin...