CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-48303

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-01-30 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-30
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar (<= 1.34) • fedoraproject fedora 37 • fedoraproject fedora 38

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References