Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20193 - Memory Leak vulnerability in GNU TAR

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

gnu

CWE-401

NVD

Published: 2021-03-26

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Gnu GNU TAR - GNU TAR 1.11 GNU TAR 1.11.1 GNU TAR 1.11.8 GNU TAR 1.12 GNU TAR 1.13 GNU TAR 1.13.5 GNU TAR 1.13.11 GNU TAR 1.13.14 GNU TAR 1.13.16 GNU TAR 1.13.17 GNU TAR 1.13.18 GNU TAR 1.13.19 GNU TAR 1.13.25 GNU TAR 1.14 GNU TAR 1.14.1 GNU TAR 1.14.90 GNU TAR 1.15 GNU TAR 1.15.1 GNU TAR 1.15.90 GNU TAR 1.15.91 GNU TAR 1.16 GNU TAR 1.16.1 GNU TAR 1.17 GNU TAR 1.18 GNU TAR 1.19 GNU TAR 1.20 GNU TAR 1.21 GNU TAR 1.22 GNU TAR 1.23 GNU TAR 1.24 GNU TAR 1.25 GNU TAR 1.26 GNU TAR 1.27 GNU TAR 1.27.1 GNU TAR 1.28 GNU TAR 1.29 GNU TAR 1.30 GNU TAR 1.31 GNU TAR 1.32 GNU TAR 1.33	41

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-401 - Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References