2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1b2de6b04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Upstream-Status="Inappropriate [bugfix: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0624]"
+
+This patch avoids heap overflow reported by :
+http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0624
+
+This is a clean patch for the GPLv2 tar recipe.
+
+Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> 2011/04/25
+
+Index: tar-1.17/lib/rtapelib.c
+===================================================================
+--- tar-1.17.orig/lib/rtapelib.c
++++ tar-1.17/lib/rtapelib.c
+@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ rmt_read__ (int handle, char *buffer, si
+ 
+   sprintf (command_buffer, "R%lu\n", (unsigned long) length);
+   if (do_command (handle, command_buffer) == -1
+-      || (status = get_status (handle)) == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
++      || ((status = get_status (handle)) == SAFE_READ_ERROR) || (status > length))
+     return SAFE_READ_ERROR;
+ 
+   for (counter = 0; counter < status; counter += rlen, buffer += rlen)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb
index be74542091..138ea7141e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ require tar.inc
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
 
-PR = "r0"
+PR = "r1"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://m4extensions.patch \
     file://gcc43build.patch \
+    file://avoid_heap_overflow.patch \
     "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c6c4f1c075dbf0f75c29737faa58f290"