vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-20193: tar: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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