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RHEL 2.1 / 3 : tar (RHSA-2006:0195)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20965

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated tar package that fixes a path traversal flaw is now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.

In 2002, a path traversal flaw was found in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar has write access (CVE-2002-0399). Red Hat included a backported security patch to correct this issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and an erratum for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 users was issued.

During internal testing, we discovered that our backported security patch contained an incorrect optimization and therefore was not sufficient to completely correct this vulnerability. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2005-1918 to this issue.

Users of tar should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a replacement backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected tar package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-1918

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0195

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 20965

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0195.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2006

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tar, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1918

BID: 5834

RHSA: 2006:0195