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CVE-2023-39804

In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

Published

2024-03-27T04:15:08.897

Last Modified

2025-07-29T23:31:32.687

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.2 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	tar	< 1.35	Yes

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058079 Mailing List ([email protected])
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4 Patch ([email protected])
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/xheader.c?h=release_1_34#n1723 Product ([email protected])
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058079 Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/xheader.c?h=release_1_34#n1723 Product (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)