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tar: buffer overflow

Package(s):

tar

CVE #(s):

CVE-2006-0300

Created:

February 22, 2006

Updated:

April 10, 2006

Description:

A buffer overflow (exploitable via a carefully-crafted archive file) has been discovered in GNU tar, versions 1.14 and above.

Alerts:

Fedora-Legacy	FLSA:183571-2	2006-04-04
Gentoo	200603-06	2006-03-10
Debian	DSA-987-1	2006-03-07
OpenPKG	OpenPKG-SA-2006.006	2006-03-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2006:0232-01	2006-03-01
Trustix	TSLSA-2006-0010	2006-02-24
Ubuntu	USN-257-1	2006-02-23
Mandriva	MDKSA-2006:046	2006-02-21

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