| Summary: | dev-lang/perl: CVE-2018-12015: Archive::Tar: directory traversal vulnerability | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kentnl |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugs.debian.org/900834 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 657968 *** |
Quoting $URL: > By default, the Archive::Tar module doesn't allow extracting files > outside the current working directory. However, you can bypass this > secure extraction mode easily by putting a symlink and a regular file > with the same name into the tarball.