CVE-2019-9923CWE-476

CVE-2019-9923

High · published March 22, 2019

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03126 · 87.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2019-03-22T12:29Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/tar< 1.321.32
opensuse/leapall versions—
References (13)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=cb07844454d8cc9fb21f53ace75975f91185a120 · [email protected]http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00077.html · [email protected]http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55369 · [email protected]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/1810241 · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=cb07844454d8cc9fb21f53ace75975f91185a120 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00077.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55369 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/1810241 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAR 07:06Z
    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
    cvelistv5