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Debian 8: DLA-1623-1 Critical: Tar Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Package : tar Version : 1.27.1-2+deb8u2 CVE ID : CVE-2018-20482 Debian Bug : #917377 It was discover
It was discovered that there was a potential denial of service vulnerability in tar, the GNU version of the tar UNIX archiving utility
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Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in tar version
1.27.1-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tar packages.


Regards,

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Package: tar
Version: 1.27.1-2+deb8u2
CVE ID: CVE-2018-20482
Debian Bug: #917377

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