Vulnerabilities > GNU > TAR > 1.12

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2023-01-30 CVE-2022-48303 Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products
GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump.
local
low complexity
gnu fedoraproject CWE-125
5.5
2021-03-26 CVE-2021-20193 Memory Leak vulnerability in GNU TAR
A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-401
3.3
2019-03-22 CVE-2019-9923 NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
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.
network
low complexity
gnu opensuse CWE-476
7.5
2018-12-26 CVE-2018-20482 Infinite Loop vulnerability in multiple products
GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite read loop in sparse_dump_region in sparse.c) by modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process (e.g., a system backup running as root).
local
high complexity
gnu debian opensuse CWE-835
4.7