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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13173
fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
node-fstream
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.0.12-1"}]}]
Debian:13
node-fstream
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.0.12-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org