CVE-2007-4559 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

Reference

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html http://secunia.com/advisories/26623 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261