CVE-2007-4131

N/A

Published: August 25, 2007 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorTar· also runs on 3 platforms

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Tar · Gnu

95%

1.13 1.13.11 1.13.14 1.13.16 1.13.17 1.13.18 1.13.19 1.13.25 1.13.5 1.14 1.14.90 1.15 1.15.1 1.15.90 1.15.91 1.16

redhat-enterprise-linux (environment) · redhat-enterprise-linux-desktop (environment) · rpath-rpath-linux (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

Enterprise Linux · Red Hatrpm

95%

Enterprise Linux Desktop · Red Hatrubygems

95%

Rpath Linux · Rpath

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (38)

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251921

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html