Advisories » MGASA-2022-0488

Updated libtar packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 30 Dec 2022
Modification date: 30 Dec 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-33640

Description

After tar_close(), libtar.c releases the memory pointed to by pointer t.
After tar_close() is called in the list() function, it continues to use
pointer t: free_longlink_longname(t->th_buf) . As a result, the released
memory is used (use-after-free). (CVE-2021-33640)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31337
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4S4PJRCJLEAWN2EKXGLSOBTL7O57V7NC/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-33640

SRPMS

8/core

• libtar-1.2.20-9.2.mga8