Fedora 12 Update: libtar-1.2.11-16.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0010
2010-01-02 02:50:36
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Name        : libtar
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.2.11
Release     : 16.fc12
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.

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Update Information:

Fix mem-deref. issue
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 31 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas at redhat.com> - 1.2.11-16
- Fix invalid memory de-reference issue in BZ #380965
* Fri Nov 20 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas at redhat.com> - 1.2.11-15
- Fix buffer overflow in BZ #538770
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #551415 - dereferencing invalid memory area
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551415
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