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HIGH

A vulnerability was found in tar-fs before 1.16.2

Published Apr 30, 2019

Description

A vulnerability was found in tar-fs before 1.16.2. An Arbitrary File Overwrite issue exists when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This plain file content replaces the existing file content.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (5)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 30, 2019
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Apr 30, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-X2MC-8FGJ-3WMR