Re: Integer overflow in libtar (<= 1.2.19)

[Naufragium Est <naufragium.est () gmail com>]

The announcement of version 1.2.20 can be found at
https://lists.feep.net:8080/pipermail/libtar/2013-October/000361.html


2013/10/10 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas () redhat com>

> Hi All,
>
> Forwarding information from the linux-distros list to oss-sec, since
> the issue is public now
>
> Details:
>
> An integer overflow vulnerability was identified in libtar 1.2.19 (and
> olders) that can possibly be exploited for arbitrary code execution when
> extracting a specially crafted tar file.
>
> A coordinated release date (CRD) of October 9th has been agreed with
> Chris Frey (libtar developer).
>
> This issue is assigned CVE-2013-4397.
> This issue is fixed in libtar-1.2.20
>
> Reference:
>
> Upstream patch:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/libtar.git/commit/45448e8bae671c2f7e80b860ae0fc0cedf2bdc04
>
> Announcement: This is an announcement about the release on
> libtar list, but strangely i cant access the list archives.
> (i am subscribed to the mailing list though)
>
> Red Hat bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014492
>
> --
> Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team