Debian DSA-3778-1 : ruby-archive-tar-minitar - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 96913

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Synopsis

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

Description

Michal Marek discovered that ruby-archive-tar-minitar, a Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files, is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.

Solution

Upgrade the ruby-archive-tar-minitar packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-2+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96913

File Name: debian_DSA-3778.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-archive-tar-minitar

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10173

DSA: 3778

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