Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1755
Advisory Release Date: 2023-05-25 17:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-06 18:36 Pacific
pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers. (CVE-2019-9923)
Affected Packages:
tar
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tar to update your system.
i686:
tar-1.26-31.24.amzn1.i686
tar-debuginfo-1.26-31.24.amzn1.i686
src:
tar-1.26-31.24.amzn1.src
x86_64:
tar-debuginfo-1.26-31.24.amzn1.x86_64
tar-1.26-31.24.amzn1.x86_64