Issued:
2016-07-12
Updated:
2016-07-12

RHBA-2016:1408 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

tar bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

Updated tar packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, when creating a PAX-format archive, the tar utility arbitrarily restricted the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GB. An upstream patch has been backported to fix the bug. As a result, archiving of large sparse files is now handled properly. (BZ#1346666)

Users of tar are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
x86_64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d05f501dcea66688fd50cf062ab57f3cf574e5570e8714a28b0b65c96fadb1
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f1f8c8b08f0cfdd0d7d2b58cea4dcbbf75f660af0086c38c00ab6272f29800ac
i386
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: a0d7b9693a0aed17d614699a009d7fde071556794eef55e05c1e0d76a6aabeb9
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0bbd1bb8b2fb11afe2a31dcb7c3f87d8eebd4fe001c25314a4ca5ff1c776460e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
x86_64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d05f501dcea66688fd50cf062ab57f3cf574e5570e8714a28b0b65c96fadb1
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f1f8c8b08f0cfdd0d7d2b58cea4dcbbf75f660af0086c38c00ab6272f29800ac
i386
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: a0d7b9693a0aed17d614699a009d7fde071556794eef55e05c1e0d76a6aabeb9
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0bbd1bb8b2fb11afe2a31dcb7c3f87d8eebd4fe001c25314a4ca5ff1c776460e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
x86_64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d05f501dcea66688fd50cf062ab57f3cf574e5570e8714a28b0b65c96fadb1
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f1f8c8b08f0cfdd0d7d2b58cea4dcbbf75f660af0086c38c00ab6272f29800ac
i386
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: a0d7b9693a0aed17d614699a009d7fde071556794eef55e05c1e0d76a6aabeb9
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0bbd1bb8b2fb11afe2a31dcb7c3f87d8eebd4fe001c25314a4ca5ff1c776460e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
x86_64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d05f501dcea66688fd50cf062ab57f3cf574e5570e8714a28b0b65c96fadb1
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f1f8c8b08f0cfdd0d7d2b58cea4dcbbf75f660af0086c38c00ab6272f29800ac
i386
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: a0d7b9693a0aed17d614699a009d7fde071556794eef55e05c1e0d76a6aabeb9
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0bbd1bb8b2fb11afe2a31dcb7c3f87d8eebd4fe001c25314a4ca5ff1c776460e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
s390x
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 0c6cd96d0ca600a1b2687b5419cbcc903c1c9866ed13de8f57670066a6984b85
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: bd28efdb59c5f6fc5aff76f903d2733c9eb544a64cbb8c921e2e282191d27182

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
ppc64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 79d5f5d2f54b6fc6065916ecedeb0480b32bb0ea1d324c46a7a5e63057dff6d3
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8b387ea0d7e37cb8e73ac5f31723350ca21fa91a10ef5078ceccfd03e59c43e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
x86_64
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d05f501dcea66688fd50cf062ab57f3cf574e5570e8714a28b0b65c96fadb1
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f1f8c8b08f0cfdd0d7d2b58cea4dcbbf75f660af0086c38c00ab6272f29800ac

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 49b22cd8d77571c24235d24fe3c8a0324747ed3803596b5cb1d8272d17199c1d
s390x
tar-1.23-15.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 0c6cd96d0ca600a1b2687b5419cbcc903c1c9866ed13de8f57670066a6984b85
tar-debuginfo-1.23-15.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: bd28efdb59c5f6fc5aff76f903d2733c9eb544a64cbb8c921e2e282191d27182

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