CVE-2007-4476 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4476
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Description: Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-650-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-709-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27514 Secunia Advisory: SA27453 Secunia Advisory: SA26987 Secunia Advisory: SA27331 Secunia Advisory: SA26674 Secunia Advisory: SA27681 Secunia Advisory: SA27857 Secunia Advisory: SA28255 Secunia Advisory: SA29968 Secunia Advisory: SA33567 Secunia Advisory: SA32051 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:197 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566 CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978 BID 26445

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