VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2006-0300
Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.
MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 5.17%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.1 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 5.17% probability · 92th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- gnu/tar
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-02/msg00051.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18973Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18976Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18999Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19016
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19093
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19130
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19152
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19236
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/480
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/543
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015705
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241646-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-987
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.006-tar.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/23371Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0232.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430299/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16764
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010Vendor Advisory
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.htmlUS Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.