suse-su-2016:2895-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2016-11-24 07:36
Modified
2016-11-24 07:36
Summary
Security update for tar

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for tar
Description of the patch
This update for tar fixes the following issues: - Fix the POINTYFEATHER vulnerability - GNU tar archiver can be tricked into extracting files and directories in the given destination, regardless of the path name(s) specified on the command line [bsc#1007188] [CVE-2016-6321]
Patchnames
slessp4-tar-12854
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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