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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-33643

An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 1.66%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.66% probability · 75th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
feep/libtar · openatom/openeuler · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
securities@openeuler.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.