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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT |
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PACKAGE :tar |
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SUMMARY :directory-traversal vulnerability |
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DATE :2002-10-01 12:30 UTC |
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OVERVIEW |
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The tar utility contain vulnerabilities which can allow |
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arbitrary files to be overwritten during archive extraction. |
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DETAIL |
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During testing by Redhat of the fix to GNU tar from the advisory below, |
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it was discovered that GNU tar 1.13.25 was still vulnerable to a |
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modified version of the same problem. |
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Read the full original advisory at |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=99496364810666&w=2 |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r2 and earlier update their systems |
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as follows: |
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emerge rsync |
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emerge tar |
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emerge clean |
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aliz@g.o - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz |
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