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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-33643: libtar security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-33643: libtar security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/10/2022
Created
11/04/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

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_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libtar

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