Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-506-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Dmitry V. Levin discovered that tar did not correctly detect the " .."
file path element when unpacking archives. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary files could be overwritten with user privileges.
Affected
tar vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-4131 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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