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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-309

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-309
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published October 17, 2013
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).
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Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageialibtar0 (affected), 1.2.18-2.1.mga3 (unaffected)—
Mageialibtar0 (affected), 1.2.11-10.1.mga2 (unaffected)—

Aliases

CVE-2013-4397

References

Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability
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Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability
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Updated libtar packages fixes security vulnerability
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