CVE

Id
4791  
CVE No.
CVE-2002-0399  
Status
Candidate  
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.  
Phase
Modified (20100521)  
Votes
ACCEPT(3) Armstrong, Cole, Green | MODIFY(1) Cox | NOOP(1) Christey  
Comments
Christey> MANDRAKE:MDKSA-2002:066 | Cox> Addref: RHSA-2002:138