Gentoo: GLSA-200710-23 Low: Star Directory Traversal Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Star: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: October 22, 2007 Bugs: #189690 ID: 200710-23

Synopsis ======= A directory traversal vulnerability has been discovered in Star.
Background ========= The Star program provides the ability to create and extract tar archives.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/star < 1.5_alpha84 >= 1.5_alpha84
========== Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the has_dotdot() function which does not identify //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in file names inside ta...