vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-33644: Moderate: libtar security update (CESA-2023:2898)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Added
May 17, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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(s)

centos-upgrade-libtarcentos-upgrade-libtar-debuginfocentos-upgrade-libtar-debugsource
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