-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-4274 2010-03-11 13:21:29 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : tar Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.22 Release : 16.fc13 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ Summary : A GNU file archiving program Description : The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups. If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially-crafted archive (#572149) - realloc within check_exclusion_tags() caused invalid write (#570591) - not closing file descriptors for excluded files/dirs with exlude-tag... options could cause descriptor exhaustion (#570591) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #564368 - CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially-crafted archive https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564368 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tar' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
