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CVE-2007-4131 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tar), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.