CVE - CVE-2019-13173

CVE-ID
CVE-2019-13173	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.
References
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MISC:https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22 MISC:https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:1846 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:1907 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00052.html UBUNTU:USN-4123-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/4123-1/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20190702	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20190702)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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