| Revision Date: | 2010-03-15 | Version: | 633 |
| Title: | RHSA-2010:0142: tar security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tar expanded archive files. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted archive, it could cause the tar executable to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running tar. (CVE-2010-0624)
Red Hat would like to thank Jakob Lell for responsibly reporting this issue.
Users of tar are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2010-0624
RHSA-2010:0142
RHSA-2010:0142-01
RHSA-2010:0142-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is installed
AND tar is earlier than 0:1.13.25-16.RHEL3
AND tar is signed with Red Hat master key
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