Bug 1274215 (CVE-2011-5325) - CVE-2011-5325 busybox: Path traversal via crafted tar file containing symlink
Summary: CVE-2011-5325 busybox: Path traversal via crafted tar file containing symlink
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2011-5325
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1274227
Blocks: Embargoed1274216
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Reported: 2015-10-22 09:40 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-01 11:39:46 UTC

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Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-22 09:40:29 UTC 
A path traversal vulnerability was found in Busybox implementation of tar. tar will extract a symlink that points outside of the current working directory and then follow that symlink when extracting other files. This allows for a directory traversal attack when extracting untrusted tarballs.

Reproducer:

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=a116552869db5e7793ae10968eb3c962c69b3d8c

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/121
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-10-22 10:06:07 UTC 
Created busybox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1274227]
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 07:07:36 UTC 
Upstream bug:

https://bugs.busybox.net/8411
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-12-01 11:39:46 UTC 
The busybox packages are shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier.  However, they have a rather narrow use case that does not expose this flaw.  Even when busybox packages are installed, there's no 'tar' symlinks created for user to accidentally use busybox version instead of the one provided by the tar packages.  Users would have to explicitly execute "busybox tar" to use it, or create their own symlink.

Therefore, there's currently no plan to backport a fix for this issue to already released Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
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