CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-20193
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-401
Description
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 to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected configurations
• gnu tar (<= 1.33)
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917565 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-29 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917565 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-29 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com