VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-71267

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-05
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

microtar's mtar_write_file_header and mtar_write_dir_header functions (src/microtar.c) copy a caller-supplied entry name into the 100-byte field of a stack-allocated mtar_header_t via strcpy(h.name, name), with no check that strlen(name) is less than 100 before the copy.

Weakness classification

  • 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c: CWE-121

Primary references