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Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2023-2898 libtar Moderate Out-of-Bounds and Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2025
Rockylinux Esm H88
A moderate security update for libtar on Rocky Linux addresses out-of-bounds reads and memory leaks providing critical fixes.
Moderate: libtar security update

Summary

An update is available for libtar. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory leak out-of-bounds libtar rocky linux

RPMs

libtar-0:1.2.20-17.el8.aarch64.rpm

libtar-0:1.2.20-17.el8.i686.rpm

libtar-0:1.2.20-17.el8.src.rpm

libtar-0:1.2.20-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

libtar-debuginfo-0:1.2.20-17.el8.aarch64.rpm

libtar-debuginfo-0:1.2.20-17.el8.i686.rpm

libtar-debuginfo-0:1.2.20-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

libtar-debugsource-0:1.2.20-17.el8.aarch64.rpm

libtar-debugsource-0:1.2.20-17.el8.i686.rpm

libtar-debugsource-0:1.2.20-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

References

No references

CVES

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33643

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33644

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33645

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33646

Severity
moderate

Name: RLSA-2023:2898
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121289

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121292

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121295

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121297


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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory leak out-of-bounds libtar rocky linux

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