CVE-2006-0300

Name	CVE-2006-0300
Description	Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-987-1
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	354091

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
dpkg (PTS)	stretch	1.18.25	fixed
	buster	1.19.7	fixed
	bookworm, sid, bullseye	1.20.9	fixed
tar (PTS)	stretch	1.29b-1.1	fixed
	buster	1.30+dfsg-6	fixed
	bookworm, sid, bullseye	1.34+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
dpkg	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
tar	source	woody	(not affected)
tar	source	sarge	1.14-2.1		DSA-987-1
tar	source	(unstable)	1.15.1-3	high		354091

- dpkg <not-affected> (has completely different tar implementation)