Name | CVE-2021-20193 |
Description | Memory leak in read_header() in list.c |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 980525 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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tar (PTS) | stretch | 1.29b-1.1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.30+dfsg-6 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.32+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 1.34+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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tar | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | 980525 |
Notes
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777
Memory leak in CLI tool, no security impact