Published: 15-03-2010
Updated: 31-03-2010
Product:
gnu: tar 1.13
gnu: tar 1.13.11
gnu: tar 1.13.14
gnu: tar 1.13.16
gnu: tar 1.13.17
gnu: tar 1.13.18
gnu: tar 1.13.19
gnu: tar 1.13.25
gnu: tar 1.13.5
gnu: tar 1.14
gnu: tar 1.14.1
gnu: tar 1.14.90
gnu: tar 1.15
gnu: tar 1.15.1
gnu: tar 1.15.90
gnu: tar 1.15.91
gnu: tar 1.16
gnu: tar 1.16.1
gnu: tar 1.17
gnu: tar 1.18
gnu: tar 1.19
gnu: tar 1.20
gnu: tar 1.21
gnu: tar 1.22
Severity: Medium (6.8)
CVSS vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Attack`s vector: Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Potential loss type: Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability
Vulnerability description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows remote rmt servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : (colon) character.
Patch available: Yes
References:
CONFIRM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564368
VUPEN: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0639
VUPEN: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0629
VUPEN: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0628
REDHAT: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html
REDHAT: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html
REDHAT: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0142.html
REDHAT: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html
MISC: http://www.agrs.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=78327
SECUNIA: http://secunia.com/advisories/38988
SECUNIA: http://secunia.com/advisories/38869
OSVDB: http://osvdb.org/62950
FEDORA: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/0 ...
FEDORA: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/0 ...
FEDORA: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/0 ...
