CVE-2006-0300

Summary

CVECVE-2006-0300
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-02-24 00:02:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-19 15:44:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Tar 1.14 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.14.1 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15.1 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15.90 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.14 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.14.1 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15.1 All All All
Application Gnu Tar 1.15.90 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-109A -- Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
GNU Tar Invalid Headers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
241646 SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
About the security content of Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Security Update 2007-003 CONFIRM docs.info.apple.com
Mandriva update for tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-987-1 tar DEBIAN www.debian.org
USN-257-1: tar vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
APPLE-SA-2007-03-13 Mac OS X v10.4.9 and Security Update 2007-003 APPLE lists.apple.com
APPLE-SA-2007-04-19 Security Update 2007-004 APPLE lists.apple.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityReason SREASON securityreason.com
23371 OSVDB www.osvdb.org Patch
GNU Tar PAX Extended Headers Handling Buffer Overflow - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Avaya S87X0/S8500/S8300 Tar PAX Extended Headers Buffer Overflow - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
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US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-072A -- Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
About Security Update 2007-004 CONFIRM docs.info.apple.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for tar SECUNIA secunia.com
2006-0010 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA wwwnew.mandriva.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Trustix update for sudo / tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityFocus FEDORA www.securityfocus.com
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IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for tar SECUNIA secunia.com
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SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityReason SREASON securityreason.com
[Bug-tar] tar 1.15.90 released MLIST lists.gnu.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GNU tar: Buffer overflow GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for tar SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
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