Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1449 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1449 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

tar bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Lightspeed patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated tar package that fixes several bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore
individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, if the disk space limit was reached while extracting

files from a tar archive, random data was created on the file system. This
unintended behavior has been corrected in this update. (BZ#643111)

  • Prior to this update, tar terminated with a core dump when trying to update a

tar archive that was compressed using an external compression program. With this
update, this problem has been corrected so that tar now displays an error
message when trying to update this archive. (BZ#675693)

  • Prior to this update, the option "--no-overwrite-dir" was not documented in

the tar(1) manual page. This problem has been corrected so that the option is
now properly documented. (BZ#698618)

All users are advised to upgrade to this updated tar package, which fixes these
bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 675693 - tar dumps core when deleting file from gzipped archive
  • BZ - 698618 - option --no-overwrite-dir is present but not documented in manpage

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
x86_64
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c0432d67afa17adec54f631f77a94b5e9afc14d8a35ba0bbff2f9a7e1fdf0c52
ia64
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 7d6c184a22477500830cda836c989dc53314aabfa678963410b0ef849f1c81ae
i386
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 1f86f5fdd5dace8a930ac91d9cbd1e6465dc5827354c0da968592e66b3f88002

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
x86_64
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c0432d67afa17adec54f631f77a94b5e9afc14d8a35ba0bbff2f9a7e1fdf0c52
i386
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 1f86f5fdd5dace8a930ac91d9cbd1e6465dc5827354c0da968592e66b3f88002

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
x86_64
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c0432d67afa17adec54f631f77a94b5e9afc14d8a35ba0bbff2f9a7e1fdf0c52
i386
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 1f86f5fdd5dace8a930ac91d9cbd1e6465dc5827354c0da968592e66b3f88002

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
s390x
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 66353e733b818df3bcd7d64daa03f812acf82ce80d3c658834f70d344e11e199

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
ppc
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 5b1f8687d029a078102b27219aa78d9158d6bf763f7f727ba520427ce337d745

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: f3c9464e753fe8e0ce5aac4e6c9ee5eaa5fb611c7430e4b87234e9c4600ed5be
x86_64
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c0432d67afa17adec54f631f77a94b5e9afc14d8a35ba0bbff2f9a7e1fdf0c52
i386
tar-1.15.1-31.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 1f86f5fdd5dace8a930ac91d9cbd1e6465dc5827354c0da968592e66b3f88002

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.