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Fedora 7 : tar-1.15.1-27.fc7 (2007-1890)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27740

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Aug 28 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich at redhat.com> 2:1.15.1-27

 - fixed CVE-2007-4131 tar directory traversal vulnerability (#253684)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tar and / or tar-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c04df8ed

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27740

File Name: fedora_2007-1890.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4131

FEDORA: 2007-1890