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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-9923: Vulnerability in GNU Tar

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-9923: Vulnerability in GNU Tar

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/22/2019
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-archiver-gnu-tar-1-32-11-4-16-0-1-3-0

References

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