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Fedora Core 6 : tar-1.15.1-26.fc6 (2007-683)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25977

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Aug 29 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich at redhat.com> 2:1.15.1-26

 - Fix CVE-2007-4131 tar directory traversal vulnerability (#253685)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tar and / or tar-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?187ea9c5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25977

File Name: fedora_2007-683.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-683