Package: libarchive-tar-perl
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for libarchive-tar-perl.

CVE-2007-4829[0]:
| Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36
| and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite
| arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is
| an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4829

Kind regards
Nico

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