Vulnerabilities > GNU > TAR

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2005-12-31 CVE-2005-1918 Path Traversal vulnerability in multiple products
The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".
network
high complexity
gnu redhat CWE-22
2.6
2002-10-28 CVE-2002-1216 Remote Security vulnerability in tar
GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.
network
low complexity
gnu
5.0
2002-10-10 CVE-2002-0399 Unspecified vulnerability in GNU TAR 1.13.25
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.
network
low complexity
gnu
5.0
2001-07-12 CVE-2001-1267 Unspecified vulnerability in GNU TAR
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a ..
local
low complexity
gnu
2.1