Bug 1417578 – CVE-2016-10173 rubygem-archive-tar-minitar: Directory traversal during archive extraction

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Bug 1417578 - (CVE-2016-10173) CVE-2016-10173 rubygem-archive-tar-minitar: Directory traversal during archive extraction

Summary:	CVE-2016-10173 rubygem-archive-tar-minitar: Directory traversal during archiv...

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

Aliases:	CVE-2016-10173

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1417579 1417580 1436933 1436934
Blocks:	1417581
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Reported:	2017-01-30 05:49 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-05-10 11:18 EDT (History)
CC List:	19 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-30 05:49:55 EST

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 05:51:25 EST

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 11:17:39 EDT

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.

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