CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0300

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2006-02-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-02-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar 1.14 • gnu tar 1.14.1 • gnu tar 1.15 • gnu tar 1.15.1 • gnu tar 1.15.90

References