NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tar package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.15% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TAR-341209
  • published22 Mar 2019
  • disclosed22 Mar 2019

Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9923  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 tar.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tar package and not the tar package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

pax_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.