NULL Pointer Dereference in pax_decode_header in GNU Tar before 1.32

CVE-2019-9923 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.

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