CVE-2007-4559

Advisory

Modelstore 0.0.76 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

**🐛 Bug fixes & general updates**

A workaround for a security issue in the Python `tarfile` library was added ([203](https://github.com/operatorai/modelstore/pull/203), thanks [TrellixVulnTeam](https://github.com/TrellixVulnTeam)).

A security upgrade to the `protobuf` was merged ([202](https://github.com/operatorai/modelstore/pull/202), thanks dependabot) - this impacts developers of this library only.

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