| 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, 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 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ruby-minitar (PTS) | buster | 0.6.1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye | 0.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021740