SecurityFocus reports:
GNUs tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the alloca() function.
Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to crash the affected utilities and possibly to execute code but this has not been confirmed.
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