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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tar  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-TAR-620243
  • published9 Dec 2016
  • disclosed9 Dec 2016
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Introduced: 9 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6321  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tar package and not the tar package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.

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