-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2013-11813 2013-10-10 17:27:55 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libtar Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.2.11 Release : 14.el5 URL : http://www.feep.net/libtar/ Summary : Tar file manipulation API Description : libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU extensions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
fix CVE-2013-4397: buffer overflows by expanding a specially-crafted archive -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1014492 - CVE-2013-4397 libtar: Heap-based buffer overflows by expanding a specially-crafted archive https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014492 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update libtar' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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