Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "safer_name_suffix()" function within tar, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or potentially execute arbitrary code via a malicious archive.

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.0
Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Corporate 4.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
ad9831bdc61bfd45b4236baf91ba303b 2007.0/i586/tar-1.15.91-1.3mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
799e95edad373e229f27ac662a2803c7 2007.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.91-1.3mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
a7ca270e229a7a66e3945aa27ebe5574 2007.0/x86_64/tar-1.15.91-1.3mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
799e95edad373e229f27ac662a2803c7 2007.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.91-1.3mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
ad38128760a1d444cb7f92b88d0fa7e3 2007.1/i586/tar-1.16-3.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
d8be92eefacc8b999f3021942c1e9776 2007.1/SRPMS/tar-1.16-3.2mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
90dff66308016f17f03558d4ba550387 2007.1/x86_64/tar-1.16-3.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
d8be92eefacc8b999f3021942c1e9776 2007.1/SRPMS/tar-1.16-3.2mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
e81d250db24d4f5dd935986dece9f7f0 2008.0/i586/tar-1.18-1.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
4dd90e75bf8d363ed44e1bd7346d42cf 2008.0/SRPMS/tar-1.18-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
16e3f71fc1b9b2fef42378e025d93ea8 2008.0/x86_64/tar-1.18-1.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
4dd90e75bf8d363ed44e1bd7346d42cf 2008.0/SRPMS/tar-1.18-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0:
ae6c4f628deac215fc00421176245fca corporate/4.0/i586/tar-1.15.1-5.4.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
00e37ea23dc4f0218ccfed4edbe47bf2 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.4.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
ea73607c5f7b4d32cb7c158ffb9fb366 corporate/4.0/x86_64/tar-1.15.1-5.4.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
00e37ea23dc4f0218ccfed4edbe47bf2 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.4.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3511
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2007-10/msg00009.php

ChangeLog

2007-10-16 : Initial release

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