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CVE-2022-48303

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-30 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
• GNU Tar: through 1.34

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CRY7VEL4AIG3GLIEVCTOXRZNSVYDYYUD/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X5VQYCO52Z7GAVCLRYUITN7KXHLRZQS4/
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62387
• https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10307
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CRY7VEL4AIG3GLIEVCTOXRZNSVYDYYUD/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X5VQYCO52Z7GAVCLRYUITN7KXHLRZQS4/
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62387
• https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10307
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-806742.html

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