minitar 0.5.3

1 security vulnerability found in version 0.5.3

Minitar Directory Traversal Vulnerability

high severity CVE-2016-10173
high severity CVE-2016-10173
Patched versions: >= 0.6.0

Minitar allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename. Analogous vulnerabilities for unzip and tar: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-1268/ and http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-1267/

Credit: ecneladis

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