CVE-2016-10173

Publication date 1 February 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby-archive-tar-minitar 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.12.04.1
ruby-minitar 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.5.4-3.1build0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ruby-archive-tar-minitar
ruby-minitar

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N