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  • Medium 4.4

    Tar: tar: toctou in incremental dumpdir 'x' rename handling allows restore path escape

    A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where th…

  • Medium 4.4

    Tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite

    A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlin…

  • Medium 5.0

    Tar: tar: hidden file injection via crafted archives

    A flaw was found in tar. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious archive, leading to hidden file injection with fully attacker-controlled content. This bypasses pre-extraction inspection mechanisms, potentially allowing an a…

  • Medium 6.2

    In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

  • Medium 5.5

    GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional ju…

  • Unscored —

    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…

  • High 7.5

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

  • Unscored —

    GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to …

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2016-6321 EPSS 16%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote att…

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar befo…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2007-4476 Public exploit EPSS 15%

    Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a …

  • Unscored —

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remot…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2006-6097 Public exploit EPSS 12%

    GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a…

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application cr…

  • Unscored —

    The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.…

  • Unscored —

    Tar 1.15.1 does not properly warn the user when extracting setuid or setgid files, which may allow local users or remot…

  • Unscored —

    GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink at…