Debian Security Advisory DSA 1223-1 (tar)

The remote host is missing an update to tar announced via advisory DSA 1223-1. 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 GNUTYPENAMES...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1228-1 (elinks)

The remote host is missing an update to elinks announced via advisory DSA 1228-1. Teemu Salmela discovered that the elinks character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

CentOS 3 / 4 : tar (CESA-2006:0749)

Updated tar packages that fix a path traversal flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files or all of the files from that...

tar security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0749-01 Updated tar packages that fix a path traversal flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can...

DSA-1228-1 elinks

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DSA-1226-1 links

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

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

DSA-1223-1 tar

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USN-385-1: tar vulnerability

Teemu Salmela discovered that tar still handled the deprecated GNUTYPENAMES record type. This record type could be used to create symlinks that would be followed while unpacking a tar archive. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary fil...