CVE-2023-39804

Publication date 30 November 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tar 23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu1.1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu0.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.30+dfsg-7ubuntu0.20.04.4
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

alexmurray

Fixed in upstream version 1.35

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
tar