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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-11813
2013-10-10 17:27:55
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Name : libtar
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 1.2.11
Release : 14.el5
URL :
http://www.feep.net/libtar/
Summary : Tar file manipulation API
Description :
libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both
the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU
extensions.
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Update Information:
fix CVE-2013-4397: buffer overflows by expanding a specially-crafted archive
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1014492 - CVE-2013-4397 libtar: Heap-based buffer overflows by expanding a
specially-crafted archive
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014492
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update libtar' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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