Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1223-1 tar -- input validation error
- Date Reported:
- 01 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- tar
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 399845.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 21235.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6097. - More information:
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Teemu Salmela discovered a vulnerability in GNU tar that could allow a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files by inducing the victim to attempt to extract a specially crafted tar file containing a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14-2.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) and the forthcoming stable release (etch), this problem will be fixed in version 1.16-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your tar package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.