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ELSA-2006:0749 Moderate tar security update

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ELSA-2006:0749 Moderate tar security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/24/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tar

References

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