Bug 182404

Summary: SA18973 GNU Tar PAX Extended Headers Handling Buffer Overflow
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet>
Component: tarAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4Keywords: Security
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URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/18973/
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2006-02-22 12:23:32 UTC 
"A vulnerability has been reported in GNU Tar, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and to
compromise a user's system."

"The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.15.1. Prior versions may also
be affected."
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2006-02-22 13:42:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181773 ***