CVE-2018-20482 log

Source
Severity Low
Remote No
Type Denial of service
Description
A denial of service issue has been found in GNU Tar versions up to and including 1.30. When creating archives with the --sparse option, tar would loop endlessly if a sparse file had been truncated while being archived.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-841 tar 1.30-2 1.31-1 Low Fixed
Date Advisory Group Package Severity Type
08 Jan 2019 ASA-201901-1 AVG-841 tar Low denial of service
References
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2018-12/msg00023.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=c15c42c
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug