CVE-2002-1216

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2002-09-28
Bugzilla:
1616858: CVE-2002-1216 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.

Find out more about CVE-2002-1216 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2003:218 2003-07-01
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2002:096 2002-09-29
Red Hat Linux 7.0 RHSA-2002:096 2002-09-29
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RHSA-2002:096 2002-09-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2002:138 2002-10-02
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2002:096 2002-09-29
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2002:096 2002-09-29

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