tar security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0232

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

Jim Meyering discovered a buffer overflow bug in the way GNU tar extracts
malformed archives. By tricking a user into extracting a malicious tar
archive, it is possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running tar.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned
the name CVE-2006-0300 to this issue.

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

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074852.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074853.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074854.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074855.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074856.html

Affected packages:
tar

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0232