CVE-2007-4559

Advisory

Virtool-core 2.39.1 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

[2.39.1](https://github.com/virtool/virtool-core/compare/2.39.0...2.39.1) (2022-11-23)


Bug Fixes

* patch vulnerability CVE-2007-4559 ([3a4b2fa](https://github.com/virtool/virtool-core/commit/3a4b2facbc362c20b689ac81e2e25884a204c908))

Resources

• https://pypi.org/project/virtool-core
• https://pyup.io/changelogs/virtool-core/
• 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