vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2021-33644: Moderate: libtar security update (ALSA-2023-2898)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Aug 10, 2022 | May 23, 2023 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Added
May 23, 2023
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longname, causing an out-of-bounds read.
Solution
alma-upgrade-libtar
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