Fedora 37 : tar (2023-123778d70d)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-123778d70d advisory. Fix for CVE-2022-48303 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for...

Amazon Linux AMI : tar (ALAS-2023-1704)

The version of tar installed on the remote host is prior to 1.26-31.23. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1704 advisory. GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitati...

Important: tar

Issue Overview: GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in fromheader in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximate...

MGASA-2023-0079 Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in fromheader in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace...

Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in fromheader in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : tar vulnerability (USN-5900-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5900-1 advisory. It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive...

RHEL 9 : tar (RHSA-2023:0959)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0959 advisory. The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fixes: tar: heap buffer overflow at fromheader ...

Oracle Linux 9 : tar (ELSA-2023-0959)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-0959 advisory. - Fix CVE-2022-48303 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for...

AlmaLinux 9 : tar (ALSA-2023:0959)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:0959 advisory. - GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

tar is vulnerable to Denial Of Service DoS. The vulnerability exists due to the one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in the use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump, allowing an attacker to cause an application crash through the fromheader in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime h...

Rocky Linux 8 : tar (RLSA-2023:0842)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:0842 advisory. - GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of...

K11220361: LibTIFF vulnerability CVE-2015-1547

Security Advisory Description The NeXTDecode function in tifnext.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory access via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff5.tif. CVE-2015-1547 Impact This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a...

CVE-2021-32847 Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use in virtio-sock pci_vtsock_proc_tx

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior, a malicious guest can trigger a vulnerability in the host by abusing the disk driver that may lead to the disclosure of the host memory into the virtualized guest. This issue is fixed ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2023:0441-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0441-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-48303: Fixed a one-byte out-of-bounds read that resulted in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump bsc1207753. Tenabl...

CVE-2021-32846

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pcivtsockproctx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCKMAXSEGS, but that check is...

CVE-2021-32846

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pcivtsockproctx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCKMAXSEGS, but that check is...

Memory corruption

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pcivtsockproctx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCKMAXSEGS, but that check is...

SUSE-SU-2023:0441-1 Security update for tar

This update for tar fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-48303: Fixed a one-byte out-of-bounds read that resulted in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump bsc1207753...

CVE-2021-32846 Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use in virtio-sock pci_vtsock_proc_tx

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pcivtsockproctx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCKMAXSEGS, but that check is...

CVE-2021-32845 Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use vtrnd pci_vtrnd_notify

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of qnotify at pcivtrndnotify fails to check the return value of vqgetchain. This leads to struct iovec iov; being uninitialized and used to read memory i...