Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0309 (libtar)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0309: Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability 
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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:37:47 +0200
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MGASA-2013-0309 - Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Oct 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0309.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4397

Description:
Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way libtar handled
certain archives. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted
archive, it could cause the libtar executable or an application using
libtar to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2013-4397).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11424

- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1418.html

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4397


SRPMS:
- 3/core/libtar-1.2.18-2.1.mga3
- 2/core/libtar-1.2.11-10.1.mga2