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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-43623 EUVD-2026-33741GHSA-mwwm-v74q-mvh9

microtar 0.1.0 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow via raw_to_header()

Published Jun 1, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

microtar through 0.1.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the raw_to_header() function in src/microtar.c that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent stack memory by supplying a crafted TAR archive with non-null-terminated name or linkname fields. The function uses strcpy() to copy 100-byte ustar format fields that lack null terminators, causing writes of up to 355 bytes into a 100-byte destination buffer when mtar_open(), mtar_find(), or mtar_read_header() process attacker-supplied TAR archives.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rxi microtar ≤ 0.1.0 —

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