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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:0842-01 Moderate: Tar Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2023
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Stay informed about a recent Red Hat advisory on the tar package highlighting a moderate severity heap overflow vulnerability affecting data integrity and security
An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive.
Security Fix(es):
* tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum (CVE-2022-48303)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow tar

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48303 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: tar-1.30-6.el8_7.1.src.rpm
aarch64: tar-1.30-6.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.30-6.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm tar-debugsource-1.30-6.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: tar-1.30-6.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.30-6.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm tar-debugsource-1.30-6.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tar-1.30-6.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.30-6.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm tar-debugsource-1.30-6.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: tar-1.30-6.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.30-6.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm tar-debugsource-1.30-6.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0842-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0842
Issue date: 2023-02-21

Topic

An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow tar

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2149722 - CVE-2022-48303 tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum

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