Samsung / Castanets

Edge distributed web engine. Part of web engine processes are offloaded to a powerful devices and only graphical results are processed in local devices. This way, we overcome both CPU limitations and memory limitations of the low-end local devices
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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CVE-2007-4559 Patch #429

Open TrellixVulnTeam opened 2 years ago

TrellixVulnTeam commented 2 years ago

Patching CVE-2007-4559

Hi, we are security researchers from the Advanced Research Center at Trellix. We have began a campaign to patch a widespread bug named CVE-2007-4559. CVE-2007-4559 is a 15 year old bug in the Python tarfile package. By using extract() or extractall() on a tarfile object without sanitizing input, a maliciously crafted .tar file could perform a directory path traversal attack. We found at least one unsantized extractall() in your codebase and are providing a patch for you via pull request. The patch essentially checks to see if all tarfile members will be extracted safely and throws an exception otherwise. We encourage you to use this patch or your own solution to secure against CVE-2007-4559. Further technical information about the vulnerability can be found in this blog.

If you have further questions you may contact us through this projects lead researcher Kasimir Schulz.