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CVE-2023-39804

MEDIUM

6.2

Description

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

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.2

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published3/27/2024

Last Modified11/4/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:tar

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058079(cve@mitre.org)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4(cve@mitre.org)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/xheader.c?h=release_1_34#n1723(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058079(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/xheader.c?h=release_1_34#n1723(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00008.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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