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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-39804): GNU Tar vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-39804): GNU Tar vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2023
Created
12/13/2023
Added
12/12/2023
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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tar

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