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CVE-2016-10173

CVE-2016-10173

EPSS 4.7%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874