Red Hat reports:
A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access.
Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue.
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