From 34777763783f6ffab29aaebabc58683c88d56fd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Moffat Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:23:22 +0000 Subject: Add patch for tar re CVE-2006-0300, to fix ticket #1767. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7520 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/tar.xml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'chapter06') diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml index 2d04c4364..ee06b442e 100644 --- a/chapter06/tar.xml +++ b/chapter06/tar.xml @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch; + Recent versions of tar are vulnerable to a buffer overflow from + specially crafted archives. The following patch addresses this: + +patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-security_fixes-patch; + Prepare Tar for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf