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Medium RLSA-2023:2898 4 CVEs

Moderate: libtar security update

Published Dec 27, 2025 · Updated Dec 27, 2025

Summary

The libtar packages contain a C library for manipulating tar archives. The library supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly used GNU extensions.

Security Fix(es):

* libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longlink (CVE-2021-33643)

* libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longname (CVE-2021-33644)

* libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33645)

* libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33646)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 libtar 0:1.2.20-17.el8

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121289
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121292
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121295
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121297