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Fedora Security Update Fixes tar "safer_name_suffix()" Buffer Overflow

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes tar "safer_name_suffix()" Buffer Overflow
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3657
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4476
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-30

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

c09659eac15f8e77065533c34af22253d2a46e53 tar-1.15.1-28.fc7.ppc64.rpm
458b97f6abd1acd618fa562d466a271b22006e6f tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-28.fc7.ppc64.rpm
f813a5b6c36a75318aaecf771101ad2ebd640fa6 tar-1.15.1-28.fc7.i386.rpm
b84314a9e349bc5c2588b6747b06756d565643a9 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-28.fc7.i386.rpm
eea2f8078c49a09717df1d4f22ed9f7a1f326be2 tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-28.fc7.x86_64.rpm
44bba686adf4a5a2936773253687cdc897495407 tar-1.15.1-28.fc7.x86_64.rpm
848226382b22036efe7206d1114dc7bde6e1c52a tar-1.15.1-28.fc7.ppc.rpm
f6ede3c1738cf39dec8f8fa6732ab0d4cfbb897a tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-28.fc7.ppc.rpm
d7d03d1a399275ff8283344263d392664ef1754e tar-1.15.1-28.fc7.src.rpm

ChangeLog

2007-10-30 : Initial release

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