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

An update of the tar package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - tar: Incorrectly handled extension attributes in PAX archives can lead to a crash (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - tar: Bypassing the extract path name (CVE-2016-6321)

  - tar: null-pointer dereference in pax_decode_header in sparse.c (CVE-2019-9923)

  - GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows     local users to cause a denial of service (infinite read loop in sparse_dump_region in sparse.c) by     modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process (e.g., a system backup     running as root). (CVE-2018-20482)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - tar: null-pointer dereference in pax_decode_header in sparse.c (CVE-2019-9923)

  - In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash     in xheader.c. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash     in xheader.c. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3755 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and     could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0071-1 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0070-1 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of tar installed on the remote host is prior to 1.26-35. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2390 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-475 advisory.

  - It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could     supply a specially crafted file and cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)     (CVE-2023-39804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6543-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled extended attributes in PAX archives. An attacker could use     this issue to cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
204233	Photon OS 4.0: Tar PHSA-2024-4.0-0540	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
204139	Photon OS 5.0: Tar PHSA-2023-5.0-0178	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
199275	RHEL 9 : tar (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199262	RHEL 7 : tar (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199259	RHEL 8 : tar (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
197150	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1623)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
197141	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1642)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193606	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1539)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193605	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1558)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
192419	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1464)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
192413	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1479)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191973	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1328)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191964	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1350)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191866	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1231)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191831	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1253)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191776	Debian dla-3755 : tar - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
190306	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1208)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
190286	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1188)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
187940	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2024:0071-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
187854	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2024:0070-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
187835	Amazon Linux 2 : tar (ALAS-2024-2390)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
187702	Amazon Linux 2023 : tar (ALAS2023-2024-475)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
186711	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : GNU Tar vulnerability (USN-6543-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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