An attacker who submits a crafted tar file with size in header struct being 0 may be able to trigger an calling of malloc(0) for a variable gnu_longlink, causing an out-of-bounds read.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.1 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)