CVE-2021-33643

Un atacante que envía un archivo tar diseñado con el tamaño de la estructura de encabezado siendo 0 puede ser capaz de desencadenar una llamada de malloc(0) para una variable gnu_longlink, causando una lectura fuera de límites

A flaw was found in libtar. This flaw allows an attacker who submits a crafted tar file with the size in the header struct being 0 to trigger a calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

It was discovered that libtar may perform out-of-bounds reads when processing specially crafted tar files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libtar to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that libtar contained a memory leak due to failing to free a variable, causing performance degradation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libtar to crash, resulting in a denial of service.