| 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, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-987-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 354091 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| dpkg (PTS) | wheezy | 1.16.18 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 1.16.17 | fixed | |
| jessie | 1.17.27 | fixed | |
| jessie (security) | 1.17.26 | fixed | |
| buster, sid, stretch | 1.18.24 | fixed | |
| tar (PTS) | wheezy | 1.26+dfsg-0.1 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 1.26+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 | fixed | |
| jessie (security), jessie | 1.27.1-2+deb8u1 | fixed | |
| buster, stretch | 1.29b-1.1 | fixed | |
| sid | 1.29b-2 | 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 | (unstable) | 1.15.1-3 | high | 354091 | |
| tar | source | sarge | 1.14-2.1 | medium | DSA-987-1 | |
| tar | source | woody | (not affected) |
- dpkg <not-affected> (has completely different tar implementation)