-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE :tar SUMMARY :directory-traversal vulnerability DATE :2002-10-01 12:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The tar utility contain vulnerabilities which can allow arbitrary files to be overwritten during archive extraction. DETAIL During testing by Redhat of the fix to GNU tar from the advisory below, it was discovered that GNU tar 1.13.25 was still vulnerable to a modified version of the same problem. Read the full original advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=99496364810666&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r2 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge tar emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mZcbfT7nyhUpoZMRAgTqAJ9TIgnwCf6vABCsQp7fZ/WpHUoCNACdGzJH 2yxb1ASJvjfl5ToRzzfJ8oM= =7aPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
