SECURITY: tar (CVE-2006-0300)

[Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)]

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A malicious tar archive could trigger a Buffer overflow in GNU tar,
potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution: apply this patch to 1.15.1:
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/app-arch/tar/files/tar-CVE-2006-0300.patch

More information:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123038
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0300


Yaakov
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