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CVE-2021-33643

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Publication date:
10/08/2022
Last modified:
03/11/2025

Description

An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.10 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
9.10
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:feep:libtar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.2.21 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:openatom:openeuler:20.03:sp1:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openatom:openeuler:20.03:sp3:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openatom:openeuler:22.03:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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