An update of the libtar package has been released.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ccc68b06cc advisory.

    - fix use-after-free bugs introduced by incorrect memleak fixes (CVE-2021-33640)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2898 advisory.

    The libtar packages contain a C library for manipulating tar archives. The library supports both the     strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly used GNU extensions.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longlink (CVE-2021-33643)

    * libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longname (CVE-2021-33644)

    * libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33645)

    * libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33646)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2898 advisory.

  - An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an     calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read. (CVE-2021-33643)

  - An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an     calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longname, causing an out-of-bounds read. (CVE-2021-33644)

  - The th_read() function doesn't free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longlink after allocating memory, which may     cause a memory leak. (CVE-2021-33645)

  - The th_read() function doesn't free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longname after allocating memory, which may     cause a memory leak. (CVE-2021-33646)

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-88772d0a2d advisory.

    - fix use-after-free bugs introduced by incorrect memleak fixes (CVE-2021-33640)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0067 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2021-33643:
    An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an     calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.

    CVE-2021-33644:
    An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an     calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longname, causing an out-of-bounds read.

    CVE-2021-33645:
    The th_read() function doesnt free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longlink after allocating memory, which may     cause a memory leak.

    CVE-2021-33646:
    The th_read() function doesnt free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longname after allocating memory, which may     cause a memory leak.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
203367	Photon OS 4.0: Libtar PHSA-2022-4.0-0231	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/23/2024	11/2/2026	critical
169344	Fedora 36 : libtar (2022-ccc68b06cc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	12/28/2022	11/14/2024	critical
175902	RHEL 8 : libtar (RHSA-2023:2898)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/17/2023	11/7/2024	critical
332509	Photon OS 5.0: Libtar PHSA-2023-5.0-90-0010	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/5/2026	11/2/2026	critical
176159	AlmaLinux 8 : libtar (ALSA-2023:2898)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	5/20/2023	5/20/2023	critical
211208	Fedora 37 : libtar (2022-88772d0a2d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/14/2024	11/14/2024	critical
236098	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0067: libtar (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0067)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	5/14/2025	5/14/2025	critical

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