Vulnerabilities > GNU > TAR > Medium

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
5.5
2010-03-15 CVE-2010-0624 Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in GNU Cpio and TAR
Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows remote rmt servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : (colon) character.
network
gnu CWE-119
6.8
2007-08-25 CVE-2007-4131 Remote Directory Traversal vulnerability in GNU Tar Dot_Dot Function
Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //..
network
redhat rpath gnu
6.8
2006-11-24 CVE-2006-6097 Remote Directory Traversal vulnerability in GNU TAR 1.15.1/1.16
GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.
network
high complexity
gnu
4.0
2006-02-24 CVE-2006-0300 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GNU Tar Invalid Headers
Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.
network
high complexity
gnu
5.1
2002-10-28 CVE-2002-1216 Remote Security vulnerability in tar
GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check.
network
low complexity
gnu
5.0
2002-10-10 CVE-2002-0399 Unspecified vulnerability in GNU TAR 1.13.25
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.
network
low complexity
gnu
5.0