RHSA-2023:0842 — Security Advisory

An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive.

Security Fix(es):

• tar: heap buffer overflow at from_header() in list.c via specially crafted checksum (CVE-2022-48303)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.