Debian Security Advisory DSA 987-1 (tar)

The remote host is missing an update to tar announced via advisory DSA 987-1. Jim Meyering discovered several buffer overflows in GNU tar, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted tar archives. The old stable distribution woody is not affected by this problem...

Debian DSA-987-1 : tar - buffer overflow

Jim Meyering discovered several buffer overflows in GNU tar, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted tar archives. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...