It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled symlinks when extracting archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files.
It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled symlinks when extracting archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files.
It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled symlinks when extracting archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files.
It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled symlinks when extracting archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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