vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7398-1 (CVE-2021-33644): libtar vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Added
Apr 1, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtar-devubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtar0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtar0t64
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