CVE-2005-1918 Information

Description

The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an \incorrect optimization\ that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file probably involving /../\ sequences with a leading /.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc http://secunia.com/advisories/18988 http://secunia.com/advisories/19130 http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 http://secunia.com/advisories/20397 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015655 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-110.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0195.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430297/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5834 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140589 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9946