RULE(RULE ID:714693)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2021-01-28
Rule Name: PEAR Archive_Tar 1.4.11 Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability (CVE-2020-28949)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.
Impact: An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to have unspecified effect.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, Others
Reference: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35LBRM6HBCXBVCITKQ4UEBTXO2EG7B/
Solutions
The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33