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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-735 (tar)

From:  "Radek Brich" <rbrich@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: tar-1.15.1-27.fc6
Date:  Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:40:01 -0500
Message-ID:  <200711051440.lA5Ee11t029200@int-mx1.corp.redhat.com>

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-735 2007-11-05 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : tar Version : 1.15.1 Release : 27.fc6 Summary : A GNU file archiving program. Description : The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups. If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Oct 24 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich@redhat.com> 2:1.15.1-27 - backported upstream patch for CVE-2007-4476 (tar stack crashing in safer_name_suffix) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm 0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e noarch/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm dbe7ba8a4d0484cc1d1e6e5a2691827d59a892dd ppc/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm 481ac4dbed67bfc0d63e0a0fe231fa90711c7109 ppc/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm 2e4cfe41ed3972f049edf32bf12afa11c5df5be6 x86_64/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm a958789d3a682b2e40266414fc61bbb527ebb16f x86_64/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm cdcd04d75f37a5e9ec54c8cee8abf176be1755a8 i386/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm 010f340db722db162b65082dee12ecb745988744 i386/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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