CVE-2019-9923

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.40%
Published: 3/22/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9923

Description

pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)