Advisories » MGASA-2019-0164

Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2019
Modification date: 12 May 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2019-9923

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 (CVE-2019-9923).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24756
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-04/msg00148.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9923

SRPMS

6/core

• tar-1.31-1.1.mga6