A tar security update has been released for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current

slackware-security: tar (SSA:2023-083-01)

[slackware-security] tar (SSA:2023-083-01)

New tar packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0,
and -current to fix a security issue.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use
of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the
flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header
in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace
characters.
Thanks to marav for the heads-up.
For more information, see:
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48303
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(  http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on   http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/tar-1.29-i586-2_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/tar-1.29-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/tar-1.34-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/tar-1.34-i586-3.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/tar-1.34-x86_64-3.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
2d770ce6d783a8099fccc591dd3b7253 tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.0.tgz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
47d56a93441c84236be64c6a08df25c8 tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.0.tgz

Slackware 14.1 package:
2fc04424906a7f8035ee8bda24b35c6e tar-1.26-i486-2_slack14.1.tgz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f69fd91af91be1cbc79258c8ed12f65f tar-1.26-x86_64-2_slack14.1.tgz

Slackware 14.2 package:
9ed6e99366573203980e09cb47e323df tar-1.29-i586-2_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
f13a9d31d31bc6ce7e5f87ffff80e40a tar-1.29-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz

Slackware 15.0 package:
7341dca739aa63408f854b30653bb460 tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
7bf94e0b52a9ea443fa708dfad416ae2 tar-1.34-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
a9cb19d548e74bb44bbbf8959d531c06 a/tar-1.34-i586-3.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
4542469c249ecca79652237ff47194c3 a/tar-1.34-x86_64-3.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg tar-1.34-i586-2_slack15.0.txz