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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tar package, versions *

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.09% (85th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
3.3 low
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TAR-341209
  • published 22 Mar 2019
  • disclosed 22 Mar 2019
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Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9923 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 tar.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tar package and not the tar package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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