CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-9923

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-03-22 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-03-22
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar (< 1.32) • opensuse leap 15.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References