A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code [...]
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages :
9aa3db9f88424567eea01781c179b161f7a3ead0 tar-1.17-4.fc8.ppc64.rpm
9b027c40cdee9ba25102ff682956398cb94aace9 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.ppc64.rpm
ee8f37d014a168a4e0446ab362801aa64e6e7175 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm
bc7af5ac1e50c4fb5c9ad01268575e32cb63c569 tar-1.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm
63aafa7ff75aa7199be1f73959584cfff5992d2f tar-1.17-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm
2a21b51d787b0505441ee87eac3007c402757ad8 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm
39bedd9860414c1869aa141819e7e87b7c0377c5 tar-1.17-4.fc8.ppc.rpm
04d638d90d0801b3c0f963a44d5f5cc0e8e57009 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.ppc.rpm
8910e138a6c01fe2f7034bd7f8f63e4b9e635e5d tar-1.17-4.fc8.src.rpm
ChangeLog
2007-11-07 : Initial release
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