Forwarding information from the linux-distros list to oss-sec, since the issue is public now Details: An integer overflow vulnerability was identified in libtar 1.2.19 (and olders) that can possibly be exploited for arbitrary code execution when extracting a specially crafted tar file. A coordinated release date (CRD) of October 9th has been agreed with Chris Frey (libtar developer). This issue is assigned CVE-2013-4397. This issue is fixed in libtar-1.2.20 Reference: Upstream patch: http://repo.or.cz/w/libtar.git/commit/45448e8bae671c2f7e80b860ae0fc0cedf2bdc04 Announcement: This is an announcement about the release on libtar list, but strangely i cant access the list archives. (i am subscribed to the mailing list though) Red Hat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014492