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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-2007-3739
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4476
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-06

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 :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm
0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e noarch/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm
dbe7ba8a4d0484cc1d1e6e5a2691827d59a892dd ppc/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm
481ac4dbed67bfc0d63e0a0fe231fa90711c7109 ppc/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm
2e4cfe41ed3972f049edf32bf12afa11c5df5be6 x86_64/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm
a958789d3a682b2e40266414fc61bbb527ebb16f x86_64/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm
cdcd04d75f37a5e9ec54c8cee8abf176be1755a8 i386/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm
010f340db722db162b65082dee12ecb745988744 i386/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm

ChangeLog

2007-11-06 : Initial release

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