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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 22, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-9923

CVE-2019-9923

Description

pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.

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