| Name | CVE-2016-10173 |
| Description | Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-808-1, DSA-3778-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 853075, 853249 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-minitar (PTS) | bookworm, forky, bullseye, sid, trixie | 0.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-archive-tar-minitar | source | wheezy | 0.5.2-2+deb7u1 | DLA-808-1 | ||
| ruby-archive-tar-minitar | source | jessie | 0.5.2-2+deb8u1 | DSA-3778-1 | ||
| ruby-archive-tar-minitar | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 853249 | ||
| ruby-minitar | source | (unstable) | 0.5.4-3.1 | 853075 |
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021740