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CVE-2005-1918 severity moderate: SUSE including 16 source package names (tar, tar-1.34-2.2, …), 85 product×package rows across 37 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (37 product lines)): Known Not Affected 72, Fixed 13.
The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".