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Posted on 31 January 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3778-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
January 31, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : ruby-archive-tar-minitar
CVE ID : CVE-2016-10173
Debian Bug : 853249
Michal Marek discovered that ruby-archive-tar-minitar, a Ruby library
that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files, is prone
to a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker can take advantage
of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via
a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.2-2+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-archive-tar-minitar packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
