Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVBB7NU3YIRRDOKLYVN647WPRR3IAKR6
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI55PGL47ES3OU2FQPGEHOI2EK3S2OBH
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KA4Z44ZAI4SY7THCFBUDNT5EEFO4XQ3A