Bug 1616858 (CVE-2002-1216) - CVE-2002-1216 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2002-1216 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2002-1216
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 02:03 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:03:49 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:03:43 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:27:36 UTC 
MITRE description:

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.
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