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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tar  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-TAR-2791257
  • published22 Mar 2019
  • disclosed22 Mar 2019
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Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:22.04.

NVD Description

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

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.

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