Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to tar announced via advisory FEDORA-2007-2800.
The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups.
If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package.
ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 24 2007 Radek Brich 2:1.17-4 - upstream patch for CVE-2007-4476 (tar stack crashing in safer_name_suffix) References:
[ 1 ] Bug #280961 - CVE-2007-4476 tar stack crashing in safer_name_suffix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-4476 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4476 Updated packages:
9aa3db9f88424567eea01781c179b161f7a3ead0 tar-1.17-4.fc8.ppc64.rpm 9b027c40cdee9ba25102ff682956398cb94aace9 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.ppc64.rpm ee8f37d014a168a4e0446ab362801aa64e6e7175 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm bc7af5ac1e50c4fb5c9ad01268575e32cb63c569 tar-1.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm 63aafa7ff75aa7199be1f73959584cfff5992d2f tar-1.17-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm 2a21b51d787b0505441ee87eac3007c402757ad8 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm 39bedd9860414c1869aa141819e7e87b7c0377c5 tar-1.17-4.fc8.ppc.rpm 04d638d90d0801b3c0f963a44d5f5cc0e8e57009 tar-debuginfo-1.17-4.fc8.ppc.rpm 8910e138a6c01fe2f7034bd7f8f63e4b9e635e5d tar-1.17-4.fc8.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update tar' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2007-2800
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 7.5
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