CVE-2007-4559

Advisory

Ravenpy 0.9.0 includes a fix for CVE-2007-4559: Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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- Add support for the command `:RedirectToFile`. Tested for grid weights only.
- Add support for the command `:WriteForcingFunctions`.
- Patch directory traversal vulnerability (`CVE-2007-4559 <(https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw9q-c7gh-j9vm>`_).

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4559
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074290.html
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074292.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26623
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3022