CVE-2007-4559
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-08-28 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:01
Severity ?
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.htmlExploit, Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/26623Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.htmlExploit, Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/26623Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH/
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
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