Security Bulletin
Summary
The Tar package is used by IBM Netezza Appliance. IBM Netezza Appliance has addressed the applicable CVE[CVE-2025-45582]
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-45582
DESCRIPTION: GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an archive that contains a ../ symlink to a critical directory. Second, the victim must extract an archive that contains a critical file, specified via a relative pathname that begins with the symlink name and ends with that critical file's name. Here, the extraction follows the symlink and overwrites the critical file. This bypasses the protection mechanism of "Member name contains '..'" that would occur for a single TAR archive that attempted to specify the critical file via a ../ approach. For example, the first archive can contain "x - ../../../../../home/victim/.ssh" and the second archive can contain x/authorized_keys. This can affect server applications that automatically extract any number of user-supplied TAR archives, and were relying on the blocking of traversal. This can also affect software installation processes in which "tar xf" is run more than once (e.g., when installing a package can automatically install two dependencies that are set up as untrusted tarballs instead of official packages). NOTE: the official GNU Tar manual has an otherwise-empty directory for each "tar xf" in its Security Rules of Thumb; however, third-party advice leads users to run "tar xf" more than once into the same directory.
CWE: CWE-24: Path Traversal: '../filedir'
CVSS Source: cve@mitre.org
CVSS Base score: 4.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Netezza Appliance | 1.0.0.0 - 1.0.1.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
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Affected Product(s)
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VRMF
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Remediation/Fixes
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| IBM Netezza Appliance | 1.0.2.0 | Fix Central Link |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
07 Aug 2026: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
07 August 2026
Initial Publish date:
07 August 2026
UID
ibm17282891