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Scientific Linux: Moderate Tar Update, CVE-2007-4131 Path Traversal Issue

Calendar Aug 28, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate update tar path traversal extraction Scientific Linux
Moderate: tar security update 
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:10:04 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for tar on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: tar security update
Issue date:	2007-08-23
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4131

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives.
A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary
files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. (CVE-2007-4131)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.src.rpm
 i386:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson