RHSA-2023:2898 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libtar 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.

Description

The libtar packages contain a C library for manipulating tar archives. The library supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly used GNU extensions.

Security Fix(es):

• libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longlink (CVE-2021-33643)
• libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longname (CVE-2021-33644)
• libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33645)
• libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function (CVE-2021-33646)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2121289 - CVE-2021-33643 libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longlink
• BZ - 2121292 - CVE-2021-33644 libtar: out-of-bounds read in gnu_longname
• BZ - 2121295 - CVE-2021-33645 libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function
• BZ - 2121297 - CVE-2021-33646 libtar: memory leak found in th_read() function

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33643
• CVE-2021-33644
• CVE-2021-33645
• CVE-2021-33646

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index