usn-4692-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2021-01-13 18:56
Modified
2026-06-29 10:52
Summary
tar vulnerabilities
Details

Chris Siebenmann discovered that tar incorrectly handled extracting files resized during extraction when invoked with the --sparse flag. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-20482)

Daniel Axtens discovered that tar incorrectly handled certain malformed tar files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9923)

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  "details": "Chris Siebenmann discovered that tar incorrectly handled extracting files\nresized during extraction when invoked with the --sparse flag. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue\nonly affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-20482)\n\nDaniel Axtens discovered that tar incorrectly handled certain malformed\ntar files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a\nspecially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to\ncause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9923)\n",
  "id": "USN-4692-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-29T10:52:48Z",
  "published": "2021-01-13T18:56:53Z",
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