Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1438-1 tar -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 28 Dec 2007
- Affected Packages:
- tar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4131, CVE-2007-4476.
- More information:
-
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Tar. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2007-4131
A directory traversal vulnerability enables attackers using specially crafted archives to extract contents outside the directory tree created by tar.
- CVE-2007-4476
A stack-based buffer overflow in the file name checking code may lead to arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted archives.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.14-2.4.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.16-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.18-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your tar package.
- CVE-2007-4131
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable)
- Source:
- 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_1.14-2.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.4_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.16-2etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.