Security update for tar
SUSE Security Update: Security update for tar
Security issues fixed:
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2019:14215-1 |
Rating: | moderate |
References: | #1120610 #1130496 #1152736 |
Cross-References: | CVE-2018-20482 CVE-2019-9923 |
Affected Products: |
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
Description:
This update for tar to version 1.27.1 fixes the following issues:
tar 1.27.1 brings following changes (jsc#ECO-339)
- Sparse files with large data
- No backticks in quoting
- --owner and --group names and numbers
- Support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context.
- Passing command line arguments to external commands.
- New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging.
- New warning control option --warning=[no-]record-size
- New command line option --keep-directory-symlink
- Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option.
- Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility).
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2019-9923: Fixed a denial of service while parsing certain archives with malformed extended headers in pax_decode_header() (bsc#1130496).
- CVE-2018-20482: Fixed a denial of service when the '--sparse' option mishandles file shrinkage during read access (bsc#1120610).
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp4-tar-14215=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch sleposp3-tar-14215=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-tar-14215=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-tar-14215=1
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- tar-1.27.1-14.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3 (i586):
- tar-1.27.1-14.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- tar-debuginfo-1.27.1-14.8.1
- tar-debugsource-1.27.1-14.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (i586 s390x x86_64):
- tar-debuginfo-1.27.1-14.8.1
- tar-debugsource-1.27.1-14.8.1