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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201702-32">
<title>Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar: Directory traversal</title>
<synopsis>Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar is vulnerable to a directory traversal
attack.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">archive-tar-minitar</product>
<announced>2017-02-22</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-02-22</revised>
<bug>607110</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.6.1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.6.1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility
that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Michal Marek discovered that Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar is vulnerable to
a directory traversal vulnerability.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could entice a user or an automated system to process
a specially crafted archive using Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar possibly
allowing the writing of arbitrary files with the privileges of the
process.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar users should upgrade to the latest
version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
"&gt;=dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10173">
CVE-2016-10173
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-21T18:53:16Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-22T11:12:42Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>