Bug 1993525 (CVE-2021-38511)

Summary:	CVE-2021-38511 tar-crate: links in archive can create arbitrary directories
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	gghezzo, gparvin, jramanat, stcannon
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-13 18:01:57 UTC

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

Reference:
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-18 21:35:07 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-38511