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Slackware: 2023-083-01 Moderate: Tar Out-Of-Bounds Control Flow

New tar packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] tar (SSA:2023-083-01) New tar packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48303 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/tar-1.29-i586-2_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_6414.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/tar-1.29-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/tar-1.34-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.0 package: 2d770ce6d783a8099fccc591dd3b7253 tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.0.tgz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 47d56a93441c84236be64c6a08df25c8 tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.0.tgz Slackware 14.1 package: 2fc04424906a7f8035ee8bda24b35c6e tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.1.tgz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: f69fd91af91be1cbc79258c8ed12f65f tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.1.tgz Slackware 14.2 package: 9ed6e99366573203980e09cb47e323df tar-1.29-i586-2_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: f13a9d31d31bc6ce7e5f87ffff80e40a tar-1.29-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz Slackware 15.0 package: 7341dca739aa63408f854b30653bb460 tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 7bf94e0b52a9ea443fa708dfad416ae2 tar-1.34-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz Slackware -current package: a9cb19d548e74bb44bbbf8959d531c06 a/tar-1.34-i586-3.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 4542469c249ecca79652237ff47194c3 a/tar-1.34-x86_64-3.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz +-----+ . Recent updates for Slackware include tar packages aimed at addressing a significant security vulnerability that impacts various Linux distributions.. Slackware Tar Updates, Security Fix, Package Vulnerability. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 24, 2023 •Important Slackware