{"id":"USN-7398-1","summary":"libtar vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that libtar may perform out-of-bounds reads when\nprocessing specially crafted tar files. An attacker could possibly use\nthis issue to cause libtar to crash, resulting in a denial of service,\nor execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-33643, CVE-2021-33644)\n\nIt was discovered that libtar contained a memory leak due to failing\nto free a variable, causing performance degradation. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause libtar to crash, resulting in a\ndenial of service. 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