CVE-2016-6321

Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. This issue did not affect the versions of star as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Use the "star" utility provided by the "star" package to process archives from untrusted sources.