CVE-2006-0300 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0684 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2518 http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:046 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24855 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5252 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5978 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5993 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6094 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9295 https://usn.ubuntu.com/257-1/