CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-71267

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-08-05 Modified 2026-10-24 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-05
Last modified
2026-10-24
Assigner
309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
CVSS 3.1 (309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-121

Description

microtar's mtar_write_file_header and mtar_write_dir_header functions (src/microtar.c) copy a caller-supplied entry name into the 100-byte field of a stack-allocated mtar_header_t via strcpy(h.name, name), with no check that strlen(name) is less than 100 before the copy.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References