Known Vulnerabilities for Tar by Gnu

Listed below are 10 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with "Tar" by "Gnu".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed software, hardware, and vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed software information are still displayed.

Data on known vulnerable versions is also displayed based on information from known CPEs

Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2021-20193 A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file ... 5.5 - MEDIUM 2021-03-26 2023-11-07
CVE-2019-9923 pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have m... 7.5 - HIGH 2019-03-22 2023-11-07
CVE-2018-20482 GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause ... 4.7 - MEDIUM 2018-12-26 2021-11-30
CVE-2016-6321 Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers... 7.5 - HIGH 2016-12-09 2023-02-13
CVE-2010-0624 Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.2... 6.8 - MEDIUM 2010-03-15 2018-10-10
CVE-2007-4476 Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crash... 7.5 - HIGH 2007-09-05 2021-05-17
CVE-2007-4131 Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote atta... 6.8 - MEDIUM 2007-08-25 2018-10-15
CVE-2006-6097 GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar f... 4 - MEDIUM 2006-11-24 2018-10-17
CVE-2006-0300 Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) a... 5.1 - MEDIUM 2006-02-24 2018-10-19
CVE-2005-1918 The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses... 2.6 - LOW 2005-12-31 2018-10-19
Results limited to 10 most recent vulnerabilities

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
ApplicationGnuTar1.32AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.31AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.30AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.29AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.28AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.27.1AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.27AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.26AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.25AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.24AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.23AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.22AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.21AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.20AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.19AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.18AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.17AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.16.1AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.16AllAllAll
ApplicationGnuTar1.15.91AllAllAll
Results limited to 20 most recent known configurations
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