Overview
- Description
- GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:tar:1.15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "B8B4A20D-AAD0-4857-AC0F-D221EBB08BFD"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:tar:1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7B6D83BA-6C85-43F3-87FD-A77CC6F1D21A"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]