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CNVD-2016-10711

Vulnerability from cnvd - Published: 2016-11-07

Title

GNU Tar安全绕过漏洞

Description

GNU Tar是一套用于创建tar格式文件的工具。 GNU Tar存在安全绕过漏洞。攻击者可以利用此漏洞绕过某些安全限制并执行某些未经授权的操作。这有可能帮忙攻击者进行进一步的攻击。

Severity

中

Formal description

目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复此安全问题，详情请关注厂商主页： http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93937

Impacted products

Name
['Gnu Tar 1.15.91', 'Gnu Tar 1.15.90', 'Gnu Tar 1.15.1', 'Gnu Tar 1.14.90', 'Gnu Tar 1.29', 'Gnu Tar 1.23', 'Gnu Tar 1.22', 'Gnu Tar 1.16', 'Gnu Tar 1.15', 'Gnu Tar 1.14']

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CVE-2016-6321 (GCVE-0-2016-6321)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-09 22:00 – Updated: 2025-08-06 21:12

Summary

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-06 20:54 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

redhat redhat root Scorecard

References

12 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93937	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-19	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/96	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-10…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3702	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/tar-extract-pathna…	x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139370/GNU-t…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3132-1	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294b…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-10-26 00:00

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