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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 ruby-minitar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.4-3.1"}]}]

Debian:13 ruby-minitar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.4-3.1"}]}]

Debian:14 ruby-minitar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.4-3.1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org