CVE-2006-0300

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.1 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2006-02-24

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Tar (Gnu)

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-02/msg00051.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18973
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18976
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18999
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19016
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19093
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19130
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19152
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19236
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20042
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/480
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/543
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015705
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241646-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-987
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
• http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.006-tar.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/23371
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0232.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430299/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16764
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html