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.

Related CPE's

a

gnu

tar

Vulnerable

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917565

Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897

Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-29

Third Party Advisory

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-125CWE-401

[email protected]

Secondary
CWE-401

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5.5 · Medium

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2021-03-26T17:15:12.843

4 years ago

Last modified

2023-11-07T03:28:59.727

1 year ago