(RHSA-2006:0749) Moderate: tar security update

2006-12-1900:00:00

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The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can
restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.

Teemu Salmela discovered a path traversal flaw in the way GNU tar extracted
archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to
arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar has write access.
(CVE-2006-6097)

Users of tar should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
replacement backported patch to correct this issue.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
RedHatanys390xtar< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.s390x.rpm
RedHatanys390tar< 1.14-12.RHEL4tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.s390.rpm
RedHatanyia64tar< 1.13.25-6.AS21.1tar-1.13.25-6.AS21.1.ia64.rpm
RedHatanyi386tar< 1.13.25-6.AS21.1tar-1.13.25-6.AS21.1.i386.rpm
RedHatanyppctar< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.ppc.rpm
RedHatanyia64tar< 1.14-12.RHEL4tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.ia64.rpm
RedHatanyi386tar< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.i386.rpm
RedHatanyppctar< 1.14-12.RHEL4tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.ppc.rpm
RedHatanyx86_64tar< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm
RedHatanyi386tar< 1.14-12.RHEL4tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.i386.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
RedHat	any	s390x	tar	< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3	tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.s390x.rpm
RedHat	any	s390	tar	< 1.14-12.RHEL4	tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.s390.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	tar	< 1.13.25-6.AS21.1	tar-1.13.25-6.AS21.1.ia64.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	tar	< 1.13.25-6.AS21.1	tar-1.13.25-6.AS21.1.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	ppc	tar	< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3	tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.ppc.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	tar	< 1.14-12.RHEL4	tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.ia64.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	tar	< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3	tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	ppc	tar	< 1.14-12.RHEL4	tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.ppc.rpm
RedHat	any	x86_64	tar	< 1.13.25-15.RHEL3	tar-1.13.25-15.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	tar	< 1.14-12.RHEL4	tar-1.14-12.RHEL4.i386.rpm