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CVE-2007-4829

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2007-11-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Archive\ \Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References