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Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtar  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBTAR-8602897
  • published8 Jan 2025
  • disclosed10 Aug 2022
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Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-33645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtar package and not the libtar package as distributed by Debian.

The th_read() function doesn’t free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longlink after allocating memory, which may cause a memory leak.

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