December 2006

ID: 00861
Ref: 817/2006
Date: 11 December 2006:13:38:51
Version: 1

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Title: OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2006.038 - GNU tar
Abstract:
Vendors affected: OpenPKG
Operating systems affected: OpenPKG
Applications affected: OpenPKG

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OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2006.038 - GNU tar

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The archive format utility GNU tar [0], versions up to and including 1.16, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR format file that contains a "GNUTYPE_NAMES" record with a symbolic link. As the "GNUTYPE_NAMES" based "name mangling"
functionality in TAR format files is (1) a GNU extension only, (2) is no longer supported for TAR file creation by GNU tar since a longer time and (3) the extraction of such records is too dangerous, the functionality has been deactivated by default now in OpenPKG.
For backward compatibility (usually to extract already existing older TAR format files), the introduced command-line option "--allow-name-mangling" is available.


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Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2006.038
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038
Advisory Published: 2006-12-08 17:40 UTC

Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20061127.01
Issue First Created: 2006-11-27
Issue Last Modified: 2006-12-08
Issue Revision: 06
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Subject Name: GNU tar
Subject Summary: archive format utility
Subject Home: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Subject Versions: * <= 1.16

Vulnerability Id: CVE-2006-6097, CVE-2002-1216
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector: remote network
Attack Impact: manipulation of data

Description:
The archive format utility GNU tar [0], versions up to and including
1.16, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files
via a TAR format file that contains a "GNUTYPE_NAMES" record with
a symbolic link. As the "GNUTYPE_NAMES" based "name mangling"
functionality in TAR format files is (1) a GNU extension only, (2)
is no longer supported for TAR file creation by GNU tar since a
longer time and (3) the extraction of such records is too dangerous,
the functionality has been deactivated by default now in OpenPKG.
For backward compatibility (usually to extract already existing
older TAR format files), the introduced command-line option
"--allow-name-mangling" is available.

References:
[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ ____________________________________________________________________________

Primary Package Name: tar
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/tar

Corrected Distribution: Corrected Series: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID openpkg-E1.0.1-E1.0.1
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID tar-1.16-E1.0.1
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