Synopsis: Moderate: tar security update Issue date: 2007-08-23 CVE Names: CVE-2007-4131 A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. (CVE-2007-4131) SL 4.x SRPMS: tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.src.rpm i386: tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.i386.rpm x86_64: tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.src.rpm i386: tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.i386.rpm x86_64: tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson