CVE-2026-43623 PUBLISHED

microtar 0.1.0 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow via raw_to_header()

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 01.06.2026 Updated: 01.06.2026

microtar through 0.1.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the raw_to_header() function in src/microtar.c that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent stack memory by supplying a crafted TAR archive with non-null-terminated name or linkname fields. The function uses strcpy() to copy 100-byte ustar format fields that lack null terminators, causing writes of up to 355 bytes into a 100-byte destination buffer when mtar_open(), mtar_find(), or mtar_read_header() process attacker-supplied TAR archives.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor rxi
Product microtar
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 0.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Byambadalai Sumiya (@ByamB4) finder
  • Saidakbarxon Maxsudxonov finder
  • mms (@3291710458) finder

References

Problem Types

  • Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE