GHSA-J7G9-FCW9-WXCF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-08-11 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:30
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An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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  "id": "GHSA-j7g9-fcw9-wxcf",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:30:42Z",
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