CVE-2006-0300

security flaw

Published Feb 24, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 5.1 Medium EPSS 5.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-987-1 New tar packages fix arbitrary code execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-257-1 tar vulnerability
References
Link Providers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-02/msg00051.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18973 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18976 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18999 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19016 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19130 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19152 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19236 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/480 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/543 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015705 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241646-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-987 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-06.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.006-tar.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/23371 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0232.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430299/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16764 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0684 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2518 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:046 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24855 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0300 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5252 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5978 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5993 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6094 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9295 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/257-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0300 cve-icon
History

No history.

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:34 PM
Reserved
Jan 18, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 24, 2006, 12:02 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 17, 2005, 12:00 AM