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CVE-2021-20193

CVE-2021-20193

EPSS 1.1%CWE-401
A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected products
n/a · tar

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References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917565https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-29