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SECURITY: tar (CVE-2006-0300)
- From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:15:17 -0600
- Subject: SECURITY: tar (CVE-2006-0300)
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A malicious tar archive could trigger a Buffer overflow in GNU tar,
potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution: apply this patch to 1.15.1:
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/app-arch/tar/files/tar-CVE-2006-0300.patch
More information:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123038
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0300
Yaakov
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