tar: CVE-2021-20193: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c

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tar: CVE-2021-20193: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: tar: CVE-2021-20193: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c

Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 07:41:49 +0100

Source: tar
Version: 1.32+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 .30+dfsg-6

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for tar.

CVE-2021-20193[0]:
| Memory leak in read_header() in list.c

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20193
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20193
[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59897
[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d9d4435692150fa8ff68e1b1a473d187cc3fd777

Regards,
Salvatore

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