CentOS 4 / 5 : tar (CESA-2007:0860)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25949

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated tar package that fixes a path traversal flaw is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access.
(CVE-2007-4131)

Red Hat would like to thank Dmitry V. Levin for reporting this issue.

Users of tar should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a replacement backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected tar package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25949

File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-0860.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 8/28/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tar, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4131

BID: 25417

RHSA: 2007:0860

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