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TITLE:
Fedora update for tar

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27514

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27514/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 6
http://secunia.com/product/12487/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for tar. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing specially
crafted tar archives and can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow and crash the vulnerable application.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e 
SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm
0fc5ceb49c465c5dc3d2f4b4f1d9c0c87809840e 
noarch/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.src.rpm
dbe7ba8a4d0484cc1d1e6e5a2691827d59a892dd 
ppc/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm
481ac4dbed67bfc0d63e0a0fe231fa90711c7109 
ppc/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.ppc.rpm
2e4cfe41ed3972f049edf32bf12afa11c5df5be6 
x86_64/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm
a958789d3a682b2e40266414fc61bbb527ebb16f 
x86_64/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.x86_64.rpm
cdcd04d75f37a5e9ec54c8cee8abf176be1755a8 
i386/tar-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm
010f340db722db162b65082dee12ecb745988744 
i386/debug/tar-debuginfo-1.15.1-27.fc6.i386.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00073.html

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