PT-2019-19939
CVE-2019-9923
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Published
2019-02-24
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Updated
2026-10-14
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.8
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
GNU Tar versions prior to 1.32
Description
The issue arises from a NULL pointer dereference in the
pax decode header function within sparse.c when parsing certain archives with malformed extended headers.Recommendations
For GNU Tar versions prior to 1.32, update to version 1.32 or later to resolve the issue.
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