BIT-python-min-2007-4559

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BIT-python-min-2007-4559

Summary:

Details: Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

References: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html, http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/26623, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw9q-c7gh-j9vm