DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33643

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33643

    Published: 10 Aug 2022Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-33643

    Summary:

    Details: 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_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33643

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libtar

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/libtar?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.20-8+deb12u1

    Affected versions

    1.2.20-8
    1.2.20-8+deb12u1~deb11u1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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