CVE-2002-0399

Publication date

2002-10-01 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.