Re: CVE request: rubygem minitar: directory traversal vulnerability

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> Rubygem minitar allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during
> archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.
>
> https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
> https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021740
>
> The same issue exists in rubygem archive-tar-minitar
>
> I believe they're based on the same codebase, and minitar is the officially
> supported fork, so I'm not sure if this warrants two CVEs or just one.

Use CVE-2016-10173 for both minitar and archive-tar-minitar.

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