Debian Security Advisory
DSA-987-1 tar -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 07 Mar 2006
- Affected Packages:
- tar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 314805.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0300. - More information:
-
Jim Meyering discovered several buffer overflows in GNU tar, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted tar archives.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.14-2.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.1-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your tar package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.