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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201903-05">
+  <title>Tar: Denial of service</title>
+  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Tar could led to a Denial of Service condition.</synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">tar</product>
+  <announced>2019-03-10</announced>
+  <revised count="1">2019-03-10</revised>
+  <bug>674210</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="app-arch/tar" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">1.30-r1</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">1.30-r1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar
+      archives.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>The sparse_dump_region function in sparse.c file in Tar allows an
+      infinite loop using the --sparse option.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition by modifying
+      a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user’s process
+      (e.g., a system backup running as root).
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>All Tar users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+    
+    <code>
+      # emerge --sync
+      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-arch/tar-1.30-r1"
+    </code>
+    
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20482">CVE-2018-20482</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-03-10T16:20:01Z">Zlogene</metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-03-10T20:04:34Z">Zlogene</metadata>
+</glsa>