A vulnerability has been identified in GNU tar, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and potentially compromise an affected system [...]
Affected Products
GNU tar version 1.18 and prior
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Dmitry V. Levin.
ChangeLog
2007-08-24 : Initial release
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