File overwrite vulnerability in tar and unzip [LWN.net]

Package(s): tar unzip CVE #(s): CAN-2001-1267 CAN-2001-1268 CAN-2001-1269 CAN-2002-0399

Created: October 1, 2002 Updated: April 10, 2006

Description: The tar utility does not properly filter file names containing "../", meaning that a hostile archive can, if unpacked by an unsuspecting user, overwrite any file that is writable by that user. GNU tar versions 1.13.19 and earlier are vulnerable; unzip through version 5.42 has the same vulnerability.

Alerts:

Fedora-Legacy	FLSA:183571-1	2006-04-04
Red Hat	RHSA-2006:0195-01	2006-02-21
Conectiva	CLA-2002:538	2002-10-29
Mandrake	MDKSA-2002:066	2002-10-10
Mandrake	MDKSA-2002:065	2002-10-10
EnGarde	ESA-20021003-022	2002-10-03
Gentoo	unzip-20021001	2002-10-01
Gentoo	tar-20021001	2002-10-01
Red Hat	RHSA-2002:096-24	2002-09-18

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Not exactly news...

Posted Oct 2, 2002 21:45 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

The UnZip vulnerability was reported on Bugtraq more than a year ago and has been prominently displayed on the UnZip home page ever since then. UnZip 5.5, which fixes the bug, was released more than seven and a half months ago.

There are also a number of related (i.e., data-loss) bugs against various versions of Zip and UnZip listed on the Info-ZIP FAQ page.

Greg Roelofs
Info-ZIP