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FreeBSD : gtar -- Directory traversal vulnerability (d944719e-42f4-4864-89ed-f045b541919f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25967

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Red Hat reports :

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.

Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0860

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251921

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3fcd1e9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25967

File Name: freebsd_pkg_d944719e42f4486489edf045b541919f.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 9/3/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gtar, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4131

BID: 25417