Joshua,

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:50, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Bad.  Bad bad bad.  If you're using indexing, they're broken.  amrecover 
> won't work.  Run, don't walk, to download 1.13.25 from 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I'd seen this, but hadn't gotten around to
updating it.  Yes, bad, bad, bad!  Anyone know when a new version is
coming out to fix CAN-2002-0399?

Did I misunderstand the vuln announcement, or is this really only
exploitable when a superuser extracts files from a tarball without
looking at the contents...?

____SNIP____
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
____SNIP____

Cheers,

Mike

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