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Fedora Security Update Fixes Tar Archive Handling Directory Traversal Issue


Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Tar Archive Handling Directory Traversal Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3015
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4131
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-08-31

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

bd8087f28ac3543985fdd20925576c6bd30a6052 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc7.ppc64.rpm
570600876a6aea95d037c08b0535dca556ef8e54 tar-1.15.1-27.fc7.ppc64.rpm
b1daf539622c49c6eac21e61fcf46d8944ffa7d9 tar-1.15.1-27.fc7.i386.rpm
120984df639499b8510406e5ad8290d59fd27a68 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc7.i386.rpm
f090162ea9d38447f52ef1e040de8cc73d43425c tar-1.15.1-27.fc7.x86_64.rpm
a8d12080387b64d6748bbd2173de076faf086c78 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc7.x86_64.rpm
8a8443f8c2914b8be18a1c2e03213ae3cf698146 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc7.ppc.rpm
fbbe1ff700d6a4d213d950d18845b061b983f1d2 tar-1.15.1-27.fc7.ppc.rpm
2a0c359a2143728dfda85c1ab9e9bf7b09ff6b1e tar-1.15.1-27.fc7.src.rpm

ChangeLog

2007-08-31 : Initial release

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