Posted by Paris Zoumpouloglou on Apr 28

== Background ==

libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive
formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both
BSD and GNU ar variants.

== Affected software ==

bsdtar

== Version ==

All tests were performed using commit
296efb3db188fa4bf7b0e7b5c61d404f9145f0ab

== Description ==

Initial fuzzing was performed using afl-fuzzer

Using a crafted tar file bsdtar can perform an out-of-bounds memory…