| Name | CVE-2007-4829 |
| Description | Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 449544 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 5.36.0-7+deb12u2 | fixed |
| trixie | 5.40.1-5 | fixed |
| sid | 5.40.1-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[etch] - perl <not-affected> (Was merged into Perl as of 5.10)
[sarge] - libarchive-tar-perl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[etch] - libarchive-tar-perl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)