MGASA-2019-0164

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    MGASA-2019-0164

    Published: 12 May 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-9923

    Summary: Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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 (CVE-2019-9923).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0164.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24756, https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-04/msg00148.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tar

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/tar?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.31-1.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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