Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Triggered by Crafted Tar File Size Header

Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Triggered by Crafted Tar File Size Header

CVE-2021-33643 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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.

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