CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4476
7.5 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Affected configurations
• gnu tar (< 1.19)
• debian debian linux 3.1
• debian debian linux 4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978 Third Party Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691 Third Party Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27331 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27453 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27514 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27681 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27857 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28255 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29968 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32051 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33567 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39008 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021680.1-1 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:197 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-650-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-709-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0628 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0629 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7114 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8599 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9336 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00073.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00370.html Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978 Third Party Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691 Third Party Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27331 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27453 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27514 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27681 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27857 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28255 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29968 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32051 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33567 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39008 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021680.1-1 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:197 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-650-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-709-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0628 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0629 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7114 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8599 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9336 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00073.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00370.html Third Party Advisory