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CVE-2023-39804

Published: 30 November 2023

In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
Fixed in upstream version 1.35

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
tar
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (1.29b-2ubuntu0.4+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (1.30+dfsg-7ubuntu0.20.04.4)
jammy
Released (1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2)
lunar
Released (1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu0.2)
mantic
Released (1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu1.1)
trusty
Released (1.27.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm4)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needed

xenial
Released (1.28-2.1ubuntu0.2+esm3)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4