Vulnerability in GNU Tar
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 unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.052 (92.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.052 · newest: 0.052 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- GNU Tar — versions 1.14, 1.14.1, 1.15
References
- www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430299/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5978 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/18999 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24966 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.006-tar.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18976 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)