CVE-2007-4476

Summary

CVECVE-2007-4476
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-09-05 01:17:00 UTC
Updated2021-05-17 19:55:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119 | NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 3.1 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All All All
Application Gnu Tar All All All All
Application Gnu Tar All All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 10 All enterprise_server All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 10 All enterprise_server All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 280961 – CVE-2007-4476 tar/cpio stack crashing in safer_name_suffix CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1566-1 cpio DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: tar-1.15.1-27.fc6 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Red Hat update for tar - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Ubuntu update for tar - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1438-1 tar DEBIAN www.debian.org
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Gentoo update for cpio - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Fedora update for tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:233 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Gentoo Bug 196978 - app-arch/cpio safer_name_suffix buffer overflow (CVE-2007-4476) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org
1021680 SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
USN-709-1: tar vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Mandriva update for cpio - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: tar-1.15.1-28.fc7 FEDORA www.redhat.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rPath update for cpio and tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:197 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Debian update for tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Fedora update for tar - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
USN-650-1: cpio vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Cpio: Buffer overflow — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Security Advisory SA32051 - Ubuntu update for cpio - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Debian update for cpio - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Juniper Networks - 2015-10 Security Bulletin: CTPView: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CTPView CONFIRM kb.juniper.net
2015-07 Security Bulletin: CTPView: Multiple vulnerabilities in CTPView - Juniper Networks CONFIRM kb.juniper.net
GNU TAR and CPIO safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-03-15Mark J CoxThis issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html for tar. It did not affect the version of tar as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This issue was also addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html for cpio. It did not affect the version of cpio as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.
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