CVE-2007-4829

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

• CWE-22

• http://osvdb.org/40410Broken Link
• http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27539Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33116Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33314Third Party Advisory
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2Third Party Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755Permissions Required
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716Broken Link
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658Third Party Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/40410Broken Link
• http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27539Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33116Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33314Third Party Advisory
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-10.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26355Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2Third Party Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3755Permissions Required
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38285Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716Broken Link
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11658Third Party Advisory

Published

Nov 2, 2007

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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