CVE-2019-9923

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9923
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-9923.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-9923
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-03-22T08:29:00.247Z
Modified
2025-11-25T09:32:21.581438Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
cb07844454d8cc9fb21f53ace75975f91185a120

Git / git.savannah.gnu.org/git/tar.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/tar.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
44cfdfb8b61e2b84b37a61c18a83ef0916e9a0d2

Affected versions

Other

alpha_1_13_93
alpha_1_15_90
alpha_1_15_90_incremental_1
alpha_1_15_91
old
release_1_14
release_1_15
release_1_15_1
release_1_16
release_1_16_1
release_1_17
release_1_18
release_1_19
release_1_20
release_1_21
release_1_22
release_1_23
release_1_24
release_1_25
release_1_26
release_1_27
release_1_27_1
release_1_28
release_1_29
release_1_30
release_1_31