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CVE-2007-4134

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-08-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.

Affected products

• RedHat Fedora: 7

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26626
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26672
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26673
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26857
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27318
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27544
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018646
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-23.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00425.html

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