CWE
119
Advisory Published

RHSA-2010:0141: Moderate: tar security update

First published: Mon Mar 15 2010(Updated: )

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can<br>restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.<br>A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tar expanded archive<br>files. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted archive,<br>it could cause the tar executable to crash or execute arbitrary code with<br>the privileges of the user running tar. (CVE-2010-0624)<br>Red Hat would like to thank Jakob Lell for responsibly reporting the<br>CVE-2010-0624 issue.<br>A denial of service flaw was found in the way tar expanded archive files.<br>If a user expanded a specially-crafted archive, it could cause the tar<br>executable to crash. (CVE-2007-4476)<br>Users of tar are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains<br>backported patches to correct these issues.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/tar<1.15.1-23.0.1.el5_4.2
1.15.1-23.0.1.el5_4.2
redhat/tar<1.15.1-23.0.1.el5_4.2
1.15.1-23.0.1.el5_4.2
redhat/tar<1.14-13.el4_8.1
1.14-13.el4_8.1
redhat/tar<1.14-13.el4_8.1
1.14-13.el4_8.1

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