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A tarball which first\ncontains an entry for a hard link or symlink pointing to any file on the\nfilesystem will have the link created, and then afterwards if the same file is\nlisted in the tarball the hard link will be rewritten and any file can be\nrewritten on the filesystem.\n\nThis has been fixed in https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/pull/156 and is\npublished as `tar` 0.4.16. Thanks to Max Justicz for discovering this and\nemailing about the issue!","status":"published","published":"2018-06-29T12:00:00Z","modified":"2023-11-08T04:00:13.305474Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:39.492624Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20990","description":"An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. 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