| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 449544 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster | 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 5.32.1-6 | 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)