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OESA-2021-1173 (CVE-2021-20193)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-05-06 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

tar security update

Details

GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored.

Security Fix(es):

A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.(CVE-2021-20193)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20193	ADVISORY

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          "tar-debugsource-1.32-2.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "tar-debuginfo-1.32-2.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
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        ],
        "noarch": [
          "tar-help-1.32-2.oe1.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "tar-1.32-2.oe1.src.rpm"
        ],
        "x86_64": [
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  },
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  "id": "OESA-2021-1173",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:04:24Z",
  "published": "2021-05-06T11:04:24Z",
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    },
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "tar security update",
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  ]
}

CVE-2021-20193 (GCVE-0-2021-20193)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 16:41 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:30

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-401 - >CWE-125

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917565	x_refsource_MISC
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897	x_refsource_MISC
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-29	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	tar	Affected: 1.33 and earlier

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