Debian 4.0 DSA-1438-1 Critical: Tar Package Exploit Risks

A directory traversal vulnerability enables attackers using
specially crafted archives to extract contents outside the
directory tree created by tar.

CVE-2007-4476

A stack-based buffer overflow in the file name checking code may
lead to arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously
crafted archives.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.16-2etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been
fixed in 1.14-2.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.18-2.

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 corre...