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Medium ALAS2-2023-2064 1 CVE

Moderate: tar security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 25, 2023 · Updated Jun 1, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9923: 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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 tar 2:1.26-35.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 tar-debuginfo 2:1.26-35.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9923

    pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that …

    tar tar Debian Ubuntu

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-9923.html