Re: [Savannah-help-public] newer tar: avoid .. exploit

2007-09-09 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:28:49AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Until there's a proper security update, we can temporarily backport > Lenny's version. Done. -- Sylvain

Re: [Savannah-help-public] newer tar: avoid .. exploit

2007-09-09 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:45:31AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > [deliberately not sent to the -public list] Hmm, except that savannah-hackers is the historical alias to savannah-help-public, but who cares? ;) http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHackersCommunication > Hi guys, > > You've

[Savannah-help-public] newer tar: avoid .. exploit

2007-09-09 Thread Jim Meyering
[deliberately not sent to the -public list] Hi guys, You've probably heard about the latest exploitable tar bug: If you unpack a malicious tar archive, it can overwrite (through e.g., ../..) any number of your key files with tarball-supplied contents. Fixed only recently in GNU tar for the upcomi