CVE-2007-4476 (GCVE-0-2007-4476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-05 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:53
VLAI?
Summary
Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/27331 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32051 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/29968 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27681 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/27453 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/27514 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-709-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/27857 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0629 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0628 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/28255 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33567 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/39008 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-650-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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    "datePublished": "2007-09-05T05:00:00.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2007-08-22T04:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-07T14:53:55.972Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1"
}


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Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Sightings

Author Source Type Date

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.