tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable

Bug #1638922 reported by vishnunaini
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Bug Description

CVE-2016-6321 path name extract bypass vulnerability is not patched in stable releases of yakkety, xenial and other supported releases.

The maintainer appears to have only pushed the patch to zesty proposed.

Please push the patch for the stable releases as this bug could have seroius implications in certain environments.

Upstream debian has already pushed the patch to stable.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842339

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-6321.html

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

summary: - tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable
+ [needs-packaging] tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable
Changed in tar (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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vishnunaini (visred) wrote : Re: [needs-packaging] tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable

I removed the needs-packaging tag. Wasn't aware that it is only for new packages.

tags: removed: needs-packaging
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vishnunaini (visred) wrote :

Fix released USN-3132-1

Changed in tar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
summary: - [needs-packaging] tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable
+ tar : CVE-2016-6321 not patched in stable
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