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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| rxi | microtar | ≤ 0.1.0 | — |
References
- https://github.com/rxi/microtar/issues/28 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/rxi/microtar/issues/29 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/rxi/microtar/issues/30 issue-tracking
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/microtar-stack-based-buffer-overflow-via-raw-to-header third-party-advisory