vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-20482)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 26, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A denial of service issue has been found in GNU Tar versions up to and including 1.30. When creating archives with the --sparse option, tar would loop endlessly if a sparse file had been truncated while being archived.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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