[SECURITY] [DSA 1223-1] New tar packages fix arbitrary file overwrite

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1223-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans
December 01, 2006

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Package : tar
Vulnerability : input validation error
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2006-6097
BugTraq ID : 21235
Debian Bug : 399845

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.

Upgrade instructions

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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 3.1 (stable)

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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1485633 3094544702b1affa32d969f0b6459663
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 51004 d6513454cbe12eec5908c2b41253f843
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 554 85503d4264d7b39c7969051c3661fa96

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 520736 4b14a87c6e8b4dda327d802eddcf9af7

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 503902 98a8169210eb273252a7997c726c4333

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 500266 49ef1817d4ee1753f66bd37be8f91455

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 517810 5f48745a747ee36c330d97f3bc5cc980

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 499560 c764b0894f6c3317a78124177cfed9fe

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 543432 0dc8b4d66a82d05d7b68f2dbee960791

m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 489058 381e468152e0a5a37113f412f13d85a7

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 520512 29bc4c6133bfeb259175fea45277a647

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 520258 ed3b0aadf8720c97a1df6334a90efe3c

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 506908 3a57a912dc159ee20d47ca1591a68619

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 511972 79cb92aaeee839c2d82efe743a8cea59

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2.3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 499698 d260b9f5db00b12414d6136c63e37202

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;