DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10173
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173
Upstream
Published
2017-02-01T15:59:00.177Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:01:01.517314Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ruby-minitar

Package

Name
ruby-minitar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby-minitar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.4-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173.json"

Debian:12 / ruby-minitar

Package

Name
ruby-minitar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby-minitar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.4-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173.json"

Debian:13 / ruby-minitar

Package

Name
ruby-minitar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby-minitar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.4-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173.json"

Debian:14 / ruby-minitar

Package

Name
ruby-minitar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby-minitar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.4-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173.json"