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>> Sun Solaris GNU Tar Headers Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Sun Solaris GNU Tar Headers Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2518
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0300
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-09

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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in GNU tar. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0684

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2008-09-09 : Initial release

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