debian · CVE-2021-33644

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:05:04 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2021-33644 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libtar), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bookworm, bullseye): resolved 2.

Description:

An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longname, causing an out-of-bounds read.

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