CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1216

Published: Oct 28, 2002 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tar Gnu * 1.13.25 (including)
Tar Gnu 1.13.19 (including) 1.13.19 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 7.0 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RedHat *

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