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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2022-44a20bba43 High: Libtar Memory Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 37 libtar revision tackles crucial issues relating to memory leakages and out-of-bounds access. Vital for the secure handling of tar archives.
- fix memory leaks through gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33645 CVE-2021-33646) - fix out-of-bounds read in gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33643 CVE-2021-33644)

Summary

libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both

the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU

extensions.

- fix memory leaks through gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33645 CVE-2021-33646) -fix out-of-bounds read in gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33643 CVE-2021-33644)

* Fri Aug 26 2022 Kamil Dudka - 1.2.20-25

- fix memory leaks through gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33645 CVE-2021-33646)

- fix out-of-bounds read in gnu_long{name,link} (CVE-2021-33643 CVE-2021-33644)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-44a20bba43' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 37
Version: 1.2.20
Release: 25.fc37
Summary: Tar file manipulation API

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