Synopsis: Moderate: star security update Issue date: 2007-09-04 CVE Names: CVE-2007-4134 A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access. (CVE-2007-4134) As well, this update adds the command line argument "-.." to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract files containing "/../" in their pathname. SL 3.0.x SRPMS: star-1.5a08-5.src.rpm i386: star-1.5a08-5.i386.rpm x86_64: star-1.5a08-5.x86_64.rpm SL 4.x SRPMS: star-1.5a25-8.src.rpm i386: star-1.5a25-8.i386.rpm x86_64: star-1.5a25-8.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: star-1.5a75-2.src.rpm i386: star-1.5a75-2.i386.rpm x86_64: star-1.5a75-2.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson