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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2023· Updated Mar 27, 2025

CVE-2022-48303

CVE-2022-48303

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.

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