SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2016:2895-1)
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 84 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is affected by tar vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-0624 CVE-2016-6321) | 18 Jun 201801:35 | – | ibm | |
| Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package tar version 1.29.0.19.d061-alt1 | 28 Mar 201700:00 | – | altlinux | |
| CVE-2016-6321 | 9 Dec 201622:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| [ASA-201611-11] tar: arbitrary file overwrite | 3 Nov 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| The vulnerability of the safer_name_suffix function in the GNU Tar archive manager allows a hacker to bypass the intended security measures and write data to arbitrary files. | 29 Oct 201900:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| USN-3132-1: tar vulnerability | Cloud Foundry | 14 Dec 201600:00 | – | cloudfoundry | |
| CVE-2016-6321 | 26 Oct 201623:42 | – | circl | |
| GNU Tar Security Bypass Vulnerability | 4 Nov 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2016-6321 | 9 Dec 201622:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-6321 | 9 Dec 201622:00 | – | cvelist |
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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2895-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(95314);
script_version("3.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/16");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6321");
script_name(english:"SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2016:2895-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for tar fixes the following issues :
- Fix the POINTYFEATHER vulnerability - GNU tar archiver
can be tricked into extracting files and directories in
the given destination, regardless of the path name(s)
specified on the command line [bsc#1007188]
[CVE-2016-6321]
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007188");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6321/");
# https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20162895-1/
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b61fa286");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
slessp4-tar-12854=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
dbgsp4-tar-12854=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-6321");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES11)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES11", "SUSE " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES11" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES11 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"tar-1.26-1.2.10.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tar");
}
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