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Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtar  (opens in a new tab)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-8602902
  • published8 Jan 2025
  • disclosed10 Aug 2022
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Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-33644  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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.

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.

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