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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-71267 EUVD-2026-53352GHSA-3h9h-4m9g-9m4r

microtar Stack Buffer Overflow in mtar_write_file_header() and mtar_write_dir_header()

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026 · Assigned by TuranSec

Description

microtar's mtar_write_file_header and mtar_write_dir_header functions (src/microtar.c) copy a caller-supplied entry name into the 100-byte field of a stack-allocated mtar_header_t via strcpy(h.name, name), with no check that strlen(name) is less than 100 before the copy.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rxi microtar — —

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