alpine · CVE-2007-4559

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-4559: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0.

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.