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    CVE-2007-4829

    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.

    Published:Aug 24, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 2, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.02188
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Archive\
    Product
    \
    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    References

    http://osvdb.org/40410
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27539
    http://secunia.com/advisories/33116
    http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658
    http://osvdb.org/40410
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27539
    http://secunia.com/advisories/33116
    http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xml
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High