CVE-2006-0300

published 2006-02-24

CVE-2006-0300: Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via…

Priority P4 20 medium 5.1 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC H Au N C P I P A P

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Affected

11 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	dpkg	< tar 1.15.1-3 (bookworm)	tar 1.15.1-3 (bookworm)
debian	tar	< tar 1.15.1-3 (bookworm)	tar 1.15.1-3 (bookworm)
gnu	tar	—	—
gnu	tar	—	—
gnu	tar	—	—
gnu	tar	—	—
gnu	tar	—	—
gnu	tar	>= 0 < 1.15.1-3	1.15.1-3
gnu	tar	>= 0 < 1.15.1-3	1.15.1-3
gnu	tar	>= 0 < 1.15.1-3	1.15.1-3
gnu	tar	>= 0 < 1.15.1-3	1.15.1-3

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.1 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 5.1 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.1 LOW

vendor_redhat 5.1 MEDIUM

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