CVE-2007-4476
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 14.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 14.9% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4459)
- Published
- September 5, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4459 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- gnu / tar
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196978(Third Party Advisory)
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691(Third Party Advisory)
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26674(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26987(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27331(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27453(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27514(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27681(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27857(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28255(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29968(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32051(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33567(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39008(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021680.1-1(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1438(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1566(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:197(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233(Broken Link)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0141.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0144.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-650-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-709-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0628(Permissions Required)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0629(Permissions Required)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861(Broken Link)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7114(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8599(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9336(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00073.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00370.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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