Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2863-1 libtar -- directory traversal
- Date Reported:
- 18 Feb 2014
- Affected Packages:
- libtar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 731860.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4420. - More information:
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A directory traversal attack was reported against libtar, a C library for manipulating tar archives. The application does not validate the filenames inside the tar archive, allowing to extract files in arbitrary path. An attacker can craft a tar file to override files beyond the tar_extract_glob and tar_extract_all prefix parameter.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+deb6u2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.16-1+deb7u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.20-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtar packages.