CVE-2005-1918 (GCVE-0-2005-1918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-21 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:06
VLAI
Summary
The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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Date Public
2006-02-21 00:00
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