Scientific Linux: CVE-2007-4134 Moderate: Star Path Traversal Threat

Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:00:23 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for star on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: star security update
Issue date:	2007-09-04
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4134

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A
malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to
arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access.
(CVE-2007-4134)

As well, this update adds the command line argument "-.." to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract files
containing "/../" in their pathname.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	star-1.5a08-5.src.rpm
 i386:
	star-1.5a08-5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	star-1.5a08-5.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	star-1.5a25-8.src.rpm
 i386:
	star-1.5a25-8.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	star-1.5a25-8.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
	star-1.5a75-2.src.rpm
 i386:
	star-1.5a75-2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	star-1.5a75-2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson