Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-33646
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 libtar 1.2.20-11 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 libtar 1.2.20-10 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 libtar 1.2.20-10 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 1.2.20-10 |
| — | Security Update | 1.2.20-11 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-33646
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.5 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The th_read() function doesn’t free a variable t->th_buf.gnu_longname after allocating memory, which may cause a memory leak.
Published by openEuler, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-33646, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).