Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting tklauser/libtar package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TKLAUSERLIBTAR-2980029
  • published11 Aug 2022
  • disclosed11 Aug 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-33646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tklauser/libtar.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the th_read() function, which doesn’t free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longname after allocating memory.

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