Debian: New tar packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 987-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 7th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : tar Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0300 Debian Bug : 314805 Jim Meyering discovered several buffer overflows in GNU tar, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted tar archives. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.14-2.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.1-3. We recommend that you upgrade your tar package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 554 3042cf964a78dcdf6e2b6d249f526ba3 Size/MD5 checksum: 21956 5c2a4d59a787257f6193a13cfecef91d Size/MD5 checksum: 1485633 3094544702b1affa32d969f0b6459663 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 520038 d4b36a6ce0e06c97111d4187ade09962 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 503250 64898d22642566fac2a70318262fc3c5 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 499498 5b6a94b5e9b66062d99f144655671847 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 499300 fed1f5e8443e4553e3408588c0f5fedd Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 542832 1165d04108e7a955f625d0fbe0124af0 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 517190 f4ac26e95c28b167ba444c28394632b3 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 488360 cd50831cac6eb2567c37bc8575cee797 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 519882 a3956e10ed7ef0e4aecfba04d6a84538 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 519624 c8bbe871ba1d3302653fc0d8a4f93da1 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 506190 5b0ecfa06241e0d482fa2e68a378df88 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 511234 0397890904020953a5d5ca49e2a51f1b Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 499150 554e29b775d1c5400e3514d5a46412ee These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Sign up to get the latest security news affecting Linux and
open source delivered straight to your inbox
Powered By
Linux Security - Your source for Top Linux News, Advisories, HowTo's and Feature Release.