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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-39804: Security patch for tar (ALAS-2024-2390)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-39804: Security patch for tar (ALAS-2024-2390)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/10/2024
Created
01/11/2024
Added
01/10/2024
Modified
03/28/2024

Description

In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-tar
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-tar-debuginfo

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