Out-of-Bounds Affecting tar package, versions [,1.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.93% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TAR-2319480
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Sept 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Sep 2007

CVE-2007-4476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tar to version 1.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1