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tar: buffer overflow

Package(s):tar CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4476
Created:October 16, 2007 Updated:March 17, 2010
Description: Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2010:0141 2010-03-16
CentOS CESA-2010:0144 2010-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0144-01 2010-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0141-01 2010-03-15
Ubuntu USN-650-1 2008-10-02
Ubuntu USN-709-1 2009-01-15
Debian DSA-1566-1 2008-05-02
Debian DSA-1438-1 2007-12-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:233 2007-11-28
Gentoo 200711-18 2007-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2827 2007-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2800 2007-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2744 2007-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2007-742 2007-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2007-735 2007-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2673 2007-10-29
rPath rPSA-2007-0222-1 2007-10-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:197 2007-10-15
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