GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.
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"modified": "2025-03-27T21:15:40.483Z",
"published": "2023-01-30T04:15:08.030Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2022-48303",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
},
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48303",
"id": "CVE-2022-48303"
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