RHEL 9 : python-pip (RHSA-2023:6694)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6694 advisory. pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Many packages can be found in the Python Package...

Rocky Linux 8 : nodejs:14 (RLSA-2022:0350)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:0350 advisory. - This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator...

Rocky Linux 8 : python27:2.7 (RLSA-2020:4654)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4654 advisory. - In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because...

Rocky Linux 8 : python38:3.8 (RLSA-2020:4641)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4641 advisory. - PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and loadall functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : node-tar vulnerability (USN-4777-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4777-1 advisory. It was discovered that node-tar mishandled certain tar archives. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 20.04 ESM : Tar for Node.js vulnerability (USN-5283-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5283-1 advisory. It was discovered that Tar for Node.js did not properly sanitize path inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files, resulting in a...

The vulnerability of the OpenRefine software for extracting and cleaning tabular data lies in the incorrect limitation of the path name to the restricted-access catalog, allowing a violator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the OpenRefine software for extracting and cleaning tabular data is related to an incorrect restriction on the path to the restricted-access catalog. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially created tar file...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tar security update

An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum

A flaw was found in the Tar package. When attempting to read files with old V7 tar format with a specially crafted checksum, an invalid memory read may occur. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or cause a crash...

RHEL 8 : tar (RHSA-2023:5610)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5610 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 ...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

org.apache.commons: commons-compress is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a DoS attack on an application that uses Apache Commons Compress by sending a specially crafted TAR file leading to uncontrolled resource consumption...

Amazon Linux 2 : python38 (ALASPYTHON3.8-2023-008)

The version of python38 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.8.5-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2023-008 advisory. A flaw was found in python. In Lib/tarfile.py an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite...

Amazon Linux 2 : mono (ALASMONO-2023-001)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2MONO-2023-001 advisory. SharpZipLib or ziplib is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Prior to version 1.3.3, a TAR file entry ../evil.txt may be extracted in the parent directory of destFolder. This leads to arbitrary file...

The vulnerability of the tarExtract function in real-time operating systems like Wind River VxWorks allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the tarExtract function in real-time operating systems like Wind River VxWorks relates to the ability to bypass the directory structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands remotely by introducing a malicious tar file...

Important: mono

Issue Overview: SharpZipLib or ziplib is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library. Prior to version 1.3.3, a TAR file entry ../evil.txt may be extracted in the parent directory of destFolder. This leads to arbitrary file write that may lead to code execution. The vulnerability was patched in version...

CVE-2023-38346

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7. The function tarExtract implements TAR file extraction and thereby also processes files within an archive that have relative or absolute file paths. A developer using the "tarExtract" function may expect that the function will strip leading...

CVE-2023-38346

Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7 are affected by CVE-2023-38346 due to the tarExtract function handling TAR archives without proper path validation, which may allow directory traversal and unintended behavior. The issue arises from tarExtract processing files with relative or absolute paths and not c...

CVE-2023-38346

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7. The function tarExtract implements TAR file extraction and thereby also processes files within an archive that have relative or absolute file paths. A developer using the "tarExtract" function may expect that the function will strip leading...

Cannot decompress firmware package with error "invalid compressed data--format violated"

Running command "tar -xvzf build-xx-xxnc64.tgz" in NetScaler shell to decompress firmware package, but it fails with error "invalid compressed data--format violated"...

The vulnerabilities of the CompressorStreamFactory, TarArchiveInputStream, and TarFile classes in the Apache Commons Compress library allow a attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerabilities of the CompressorStreamFactory, TarArchiveInputStream, and TarFile classes in the Apache Commons Compress library are related to an uncontrolled resource consumption due to insufficient validation of input data during the processing of TAR archive headers. Exploiting these...