===========================================================
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-257-1    February 23, 2006
tar vulnerability
CVE-2006-0300
===========================================================

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

tar

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1.14-2ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1 (for
Ubuntu 5.10).  In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to
effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Jim Meyering discovered that tar did not properly verify the validity
of certain header fields in a GNU tar archive. By tricking an user
into processing a specially crafted tar archive, this could be
exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.

The tar version in Ubuntu 4.10 is not affected by this vulnerability.


Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.04:

  Source archives:

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:    21395 1f8f561b862e0eaa1d3d76ab5b0805cc
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      568 1ac96d117355d0c6501bcfc0603d7f35
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  1485633 3094544702b1affa32d969f0b6459663

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   374144 92a29882b472aae37c4f241a2b3d70b7

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   366426 bd8a627f95eea1d4dd38da1b8cb755a2

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   377108 8d1b6600f06a051dc7236e8e65c2032f

Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10:

  Source archives:

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:    28928 e545480fd691241448cd885504e50393
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      576 c9d9bf92c8460d314cb3320666b01294
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  2204322 d87021366fe6488e9dc398fcdcb6ed7d

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   531590 9f7a550698b0a138f4d92ec06ecfec96

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   519510 fd362a5872f6924e491e2caf7639162b

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   533538 c8148419548837909a81da6983af2964