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

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash     in xheader.c. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - tar: Bypassing the extract path name (CVE-2016-6321)

  - GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows     local users to cause a denial of service (infinite read loop in sparse_dump_region in sparse.c) by     modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process (e.g., a system backup     running as root). (CVE-2018-20482)

  - 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. (CVE-2019-9923)

  - 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. (CVE-2021-20193)

  - GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a     conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs     in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.
    (CVE-2022-48303)

  - In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash     in xheader.c. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3755 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0071-1 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0070-1 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of tar installed on the remote host is prior to 1.26-35. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2390 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-475 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6543-1 advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
197150	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1623)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
197141	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1642)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
195646	RHEL 6 : tar (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
193606	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1539)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
193605	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1558)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
192419	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1464)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
192413	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1479)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
191973	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1328)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
191964	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1350)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
191866	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1231)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
191831	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1253)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
191776	Debian dla-3755 : tar - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	low
190306	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1208)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
190286	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1188)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
187940	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2024:0071-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
187854	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2024:0070-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
187835	Amazon Linux 2 : tar (ALAS-2024-2390)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
187702	Amazon Linux 2023 : tar (ALAS2023-2024-475)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
186711	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : GNU Tar vulnerability (USN-6543-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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