CVE-2018-12015

Published: 7 June 2018

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
perl Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Released (5.26.0-8ubuntu1.2)
	bionic	Released (5.26.1-6ubuntu0.1)
	precise	Released (5.14.2-6ubuntu2.8)
	trusty	Released (5.18.2-2ubuntu1.6)
	upstream	Released (5.26.2-6)
	xenial	Released (5.22.1-9ubuntu0.5)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12015
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3684-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3684-2
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=125523
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900834

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