CVE-2021-20193Low· 3.3▾ SunlitA 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 avai…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 18.2 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 8.
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Disclosed via NVD
1.1%
Last analysed / modified upstream
1.1% → 1.1%
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.
tar <= 1.33Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
CVE-2022-48303Medium· 5.5GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump
CVE-2023-5156High· 7.5A flaw was found in the GNU C Library
CVE-2021-3998High· 7.5A flaw was found in glibc
CVE-2019-25013Medium· 5.9The iconv feature in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.32, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in the EUC-KR encoding, may have a buffer over-read.
CVE-2019-1010180High· 7.8GNU gdb All versions is affected by: Buffer Overflow - Out of bound memory access
CVE-2019-9923High· 7.5pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.