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CVE-2007-4829 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/40410 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27539 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33116 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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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:
06/16/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.