Bug 1417578 (CVE-2016-10173)

Summary: CVE-2016-10173 rubygem-archive-tar-minitar: Directory traversal during archive extraction
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abhgupta, bkearney, cbillett, dmcphers, jialiu, jmatthew, jokerman, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas, mmccune, mmorsi, ohadlevy, satellite6-bugs, tdawson, tiwillia, tjay, tlestach, tsanders
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Bug Depends On: 1417579, 1417580, 1436933, 1436934    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-30 10:49:55 UTC 
Rubygem minitar allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during
archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/178
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-30 10:51:25 UTC 
Created rubygem-archive-tar-minitar tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1417579]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1417580]
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2017-05-10 15:17:39 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of rubygem-archive-tar-minitar as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update will not address this issue as the software is planned to be removed in a future version of Satellite 6.