Vulnerability CVE-2006-0300

Vulnerability CVE-2006-0300

Published: 2006-02-23 Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	tar vulnerability	Martin Pitt	24.02.2006
High	OpenPKG Security Advisory (tar)	OpenPKG	07.03.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10	6.4/10	4.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	High	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
GNU -> TAR

References:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-02/msg00051.html

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/480

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/543

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015705

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241646-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-987

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html

http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.006-tar.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0232.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430299/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16764

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0684

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2518

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:046

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24855

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5252

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5978

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5993

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6094

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9295

https://usn.ubuntu.com/257-1/

Vulnerability CVE-2006-0300

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Med.

tar vulnerability

High

OpenPKG Security Advisory (tar)

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

5.1/10

6.4/10

4.9/10

Remote

High

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: