CVE-2016-10173

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

• CWE-22

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32

Published

Feb 1, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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