VMware Security Advisory - The VMware ESX server has new patches released that address a slew of security issues.
cf9fc52da2246cff687a3a74cf8cee473029ab538b685bc029a694207623808fOpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG-SA-2006.038 - The archive format utility GNU tar, versions up to and including 1.16, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR format file that contains a "GNUTYPE_NAMES" record with a symbolic link.
b3316815129634db7a89691f0f6a4712f63cc700167db955981aaf3a818c1b27FreeBSD Security Advisory - Symlinks created using the "GNUTYPE_NAMES" tar extension can be absolute due to lack of proper sanity checks.
7ba3e6885e8d3fc426d046277d8b0ab731a8d7a0955760bb6ec9de3f9f245048Debian Security Advisory 1223-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered a vulnerability in GNU tar that could allow a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files by inducing the victim to attempt to extract a specially crafted tar file containing a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link.
88f8e141b17e87deabd1aecfa3c726596e7ba20df2f0f17b926453955ed6964eMandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006-219-1 - GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.
5c1c3a1aa46e6ec5047fe0c7bac640cae31a993d8472dad6d9b0a1e8ee9485e6Ubuntu Security Notice 385-1 - Teemu Salmela discovered that tar still handled the deprecated GNUTYPE_NAMES record type. This record type could be used to create symlinks that would be followed while unpacking a tar archive. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary files could be overwritten with user privileges.
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