Debian DSA-1223-1: Critical Tar Overwrite Risk Mitigated
debian
December 1, 2006
Teemu Salmela discovered a vulnerability in GNU tar that could allow a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files by inducing the victim to attempt to extract a specially crafted ...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) and the forthcoming stable release
(etch), this problem will be fixed in version 1.16-2.
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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1485633 3094544702b1affa32d969f0b6459663
Size/MD5 checksum: 51004 d6513454cbe12eec5908c2b41253f843
Size/MD5 checksum: 554 85503d4264d7b39c79690...
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