[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: tar-1.22-12.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4309
2010-03-12 03:08:26
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Name        : tar
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.22
Release     : 12.fc12
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Summary     : A GNU file archiving program
Description :
The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can
restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar
can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update
or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support,
automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform
remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full
backups.

If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install
the rmt package.

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Update Information:

- CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow    by expanding a
specially-crafted archive (#572149)  - realloc within check_exclusion_tags()
caused invalid write    (#570591)  - not closing file descriptors for excluded
files/dirs with    exlude-tag... options could cause descriptor exhaustion
(#570591)  - do not fail with POSIX 2008 glibc futimens() (#552320)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 10 2010 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> 2:1.22-12
- CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow
  by expanding a specially-crafted archive (#572149)
- realloc within check_exclusion_tags() caused invalid write
  (#570591)
- not closing file descriptors for excluded files/dirs with
  exlude-tag... options could cause descriptor exhaustion
  (#570591)
- do not fail with POSIX 2008 glibc futimens() (#552320)
* Tue Dec  8 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> 2:1.22-11
- fix segfault with corrupted metadata in code_ns_fraction
  (#531441)
- commented patches and sources
* Fri Nov 27 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> 2:1.22-10
- store xattrs for symlinks (#525992) - by Kamil Dudka
- update tar(1) manpage (#539787)
- fix memory leak in xheader (#518079)
* Wed Nov 18 2009 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 2:1.22-9
- store SELinux context for symlinks (#525992)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #564368 - CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially-crafted archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564368
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tar' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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