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<glsa id="201702-32">
  <title>Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar: Directory traversal</title>
  <synopsis>Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar is vulnerable to a directory traversal
    attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">archive-tar-minitar</product>
  <announced>2017-02-22</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-02-22</revised>
  <bug>607110</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility
      that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Michal Marek discovered that Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar is vulnerable to
      a directory traversal vulnerability.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user or an automated system to process
      a specially crafted archive using Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar possibly
      allowing the writing of arbitrary files with the privileges of the
      process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Ruby Archive::Tar::Minitar users should upgrade to the latest
      version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar-0.6.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10173">
      CVE-2016-10173
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-21T18:53:16Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-22T11:12:42Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
