Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1216

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-10-21 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 03:19:28
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.