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CVE-2007-4829 Detail

Current Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  11/02/2007
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.8 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Provides unauthorized access
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 Permissions Required
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 Third Party Advisory

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11658
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11658

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-4829
NVD Published Date:
11/02/2007
NVD Last Modified:
08/08/2018