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Advisories, February 23, 2006Feb 24, 2006, 04:45 (0 Talkback[s])Mandriva LinuxMandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:047 Package : metamail Problem Description: Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way that metamail handles certain mail messages. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted message that, when parsed via metamail, could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running metamail. The updated packages have been patched to address this issue. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0709 Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 10.1: Mandriva Linux 10.1/X86_64: Mandriva Linux 10.2: Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64: Mandriva Linux 2006.0: Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64: Corporate 3.0: Corporate 3.0/X86_64: To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID Ubuntu LinuxUbuntu Security Notice USN-257-1 February 23, 2006 tar vulnerability CVE-2006-0300 A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: tar The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.14-2ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Jim Meyering discovered that tar did not properly verify the validity of certain header fields in a GNU tar archive. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted tar archive, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. The tar version in Ubuntu 4.10 is not affected by this vulnerability. Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.04: Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.14-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10: Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.15.1-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb 0 Talkback[s]
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