---

CVE-2018-20482 - log back

CVE-2018-20482 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Low
Remote	+ Local
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.
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
Notes