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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tar package, versions *

low

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-UBUNTU2204-TAR-2791257

  • published

    22 Mar 2019

  • disclosed

    22 Mar 2019

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Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9923 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:22.04 tar.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply to the upstream tar package.

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.