RHSA-2019:2097 — Security Advisory

An update for perl-Archive-Tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Archive::Tar module provides a mechanism for Perl scripts to manipulate tar archive files.

Security Fix(es):

• perl: Directory traversal in Archive::Tar (CVE-2018-12015)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.