Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0164 (tar)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0164: Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 12 May 2019 11:36:39 +0200
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MGASA-2019-0164 - Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0164.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2019-9923

Description:
pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer
dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended
headers (CVE-2019-9923).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24756
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-04/msg00...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9923

SRPMS:
- 6/core/tar-1.31-1.1.mga6