7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
78.8%
SecurityFocus reports:
GNUs tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service
vulnerability because of insecure use of the alloca()
function.
Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers
to crash the affected utilities and possibly to execute
code but this has not been confirmed.