Package name tar
Date February 21st, 2006
Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:046
Affected versions 10.1, 10.2, 2006.0
Synopsis Updated tar packages fix vulnerability

Problem Description

Gnu tar versions 1.14 and above have a buffer overflow vulnerability
and some other issues including:

- Carefully crafted invalid headers can cause buffer overrun.
- Invalid header fields go undiagnosed.
- Some valid time strings are ignored.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 10.1

 8bd49b5e60e1736e771e3907789e37bb  10.1/RPMS/tar-1.14-1.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
 57dc0115bfe997451de8d05375785395  10.1/SRPMS/tar-1.14-1.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64

 c4ad8f0250fef5da4ba2f9097c6190e2  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/tar-1.14-1.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
 57dc0115bfe997451de8d05375785395  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/tar-1.14-1.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005

 91ad7217d416f4d07536a08c6762fd8d  10.2/RPMS/tar-1.15.1-2.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
 efd8210667f158419143b243c1ee01d7  10.2/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-2.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005/X86_64

 edc3e1b3eec8c5f52aa29c6f7351f563  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/tar-1.15.1-2.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
 efd8210667f158419143b243c1ee01d7  x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-2.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006

 5300c6bc1aa290f2a8efffff2b3e8b27  2006.0/RPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 275c24b2288e5b9c57d5a1bdef4798ad  2006.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 2c7378971d6b87fad153b8667e800b00  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 275c24b2288e5b9c57d5a1bdef4798ad  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0300

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