Directory Traversal Affecting platform-python-pip package, versions <0:9.0.3-23.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-PLATFORMPYTHONPIP-6046337
- published 9 Nov 2022
- disclosed 24 Aug 2007
Introduced: 24 Aug 2007
CVE-2007-4559 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:8 platform-python-pip to version 0:9.0.3-23.el8 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python-pip package and not the platform-python-pip package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4559
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
- 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/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/