CVE-2010-0624: Heap-based buffer overflow in GNU Tar and GNU Cpio

I. BACKGROUND GNU Tar and GNU Cpio are popular programs for managing archive files. Both programs are included in many linux distributions. GNU Tar is commonly used for exchanging source code archives. Both programs include a client implementation for the remote mag tape protocol rmt. This protoc...

GNU Tar and GNU Cpio heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category local exploits ============================================================= GNU Tar and GNU Cpio heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability ============================================================= I. BACKGROUND GNU Tar and GNU Cpio are popular programs...