vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2021-33644: libtar -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Aug 10, 2022 | Jan 30, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Added
Jan 30, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 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
debian-upgrade-libtar
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