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 "/".
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-02-21T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:06:57.773Z

Reserved: 2005-06-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-1918

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-19T15:32:02.177

Link: CVE-2005-1918

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2003-07-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-1918 - Bugzilla