Secunia Security Advisory – Red Hat has issued an update for tar. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to overwrite arbitrary files.
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/53120/sa23443.txt
Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/53120/Secunia-Security-Advisory-23443.html