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CVE-2026-55738

🗓️ 17 Jun 2026 13:45:00Reported by TuranSecType 
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🔗 web.nvd.nist.gov👁 5 Views

The CVE covers a stack-based buffer overflow in rxi/microtar 0.1.0 due to using strcpy() on the 100-byte TAR header name and linkname fields in raw_to_header(). The lack of guaranteed null termination allows reading past the 512-byte header and wr...

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[
  {
    "vendor": "rxi",
    "product": "microtar",
    "collectionURL": "https://github.com/rxi/microtar",
    "repo": "https://github.com/rxi/microtar",
    "programFiles": [
      "src/microtar.c"
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "raw_to_header"
      }
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.1.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]

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17 Jun 2026 17:17Current
6.2Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.2
CVSS 48.7
CVSS 3.18.8
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