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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:0959-01 Moderate: Tar Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2023
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Tackling the Latest tar security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Keep updated on the specifics of the fixes and enhancements.
An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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 security fix heap overflow red hat enterprise linux tar update

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. 9):
Source: tar-1.34-6.el9_1.src.rpm
aarch64: tar-1.34-6.el9_1.aarch64.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.34-6.el9_1.aarch64.rpm tar-debugsource-1.34-6.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: tar-1.34-6.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.34-6.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm tar-debugsource-1.34-6.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tar-1.34-6.el9_1.s390x.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.34-6.el9_1.s390x.rpm tar-debugsource-1.34-6.el9_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: tar-1.34-6.el9_1.x86_64.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.34-6.el9_1.x86_64.rpm tar-debugsource-1.34-6.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0959-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0959
Issue date: 2023-02-28

Topic

An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security fix heap overflow red hat enterprise linux tar update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - 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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