CVE-2007-4476

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

• GNU TAR 1.15.91 / CPIO 2.5.90 - 'safer_name_suffix' Remote Denial of Service2007-11-14 · dos · linux · Verified

Impact

Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26674
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27331
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27453
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27514
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27681
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27857
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28255
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29968
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32051
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33567
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39008
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021680.1-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:197
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html