Debian: DSA 987-1 Critical: Tar Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 554 3042cf964a78dcdf6e2b6d249f526ba3
Size/MD5 checksum: 21956 5c2a4d59a787257f6193a13cfecef91d
Size/MD5 checksum: 1485633 3094544702b1affa32d969f0b6459663

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 520038 d4b36a6...