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Archive::Tar: directory traversal

Package(s):Archive-Tar CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4829
Created:December 10, 2008 Updated:July 22, 2010
Description: The Archive::Tar perl module, prior to version 1.40, suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability exploitable via a specially-crafted tar file.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2010:0505 2010-07-21
CentOS CESA-2010:0505 2010-07-12
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0505-01 2010-07-01
Fedora FEDORA-2009-7680 2009-07-15
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11736 2008-12-24
Ubuntu USN-700-1 2008-12-24
Ubuntu USN-700-2 2009-01-15
Gentoo 200812-10 2008-12-10
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