Bug 181772 - CVE-2006-0300 GNU tar heap overlfow bug
Summary: CVE-2006-0300 GNU tar heap overlfow bug
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tar
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=redhat,reporte...
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-16 14:11 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0232
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-03-01 14:58:30 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch extracted from upstream CVS (3.59 KB, patch)
2006-02-16 14:11 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details | Diff
Testcase generator from Jim (2.62 KB, text/plain)
2006-02-16 14:13 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0232 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tar security update 2006-03-01 05:00:00 UTC

Internal Links: 183571

Description Josh Bressers 2006-02-16 14:11:47 UTC 
Jim Meyering discovered and silently fixed a buffer overflow bug in GNU
tar.  It looks exploitable.  There is a public mail message about it here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-06/msg00029.html

My limited testing has shown this issue to only affect tar versions 1.14
and above.

Upstream has asked we not announce this issue until they release an update.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-02-16 14:11:47 UTC 
Created attachment 124746 [details]
Patch extracted from upstream CVS
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2006-02-16 14:13:19 UTC 
Created attachment 124747 [details]
Testcase generator from Jim
Comment 9 Peter Vrabec 2006-02-24 10:44:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Peter, Can you create a RHTS test for this issue.

done.
Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-01 14:58:30 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0232.html
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