Advisories » MGASA-2013-0309

Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Oct 2013
Modification date: 17 Oct 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4397

Description

Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way libtar handled
certain archives. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted
archive, it could cause the libtar executable or an application using
libtar to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2013-4397).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11424
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1418.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4397

SRPMS

3/core

• libtar-1.2.18-2.1.mga3

2/core

• libtar-1.2.11-10.1.mga2