CVE-2026-9538 Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. readtar reads each entry's payload with $handle-read$$data, $block, where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that...

CVE-2026-9538

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. readtar reads each entry's payload with $handle-read$$data, $block, where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that...

CVE-2026-42497

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to link without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode...

CVE-2026-42496

CVE-2026-42496 affects the Archive::Tar Perl module, versions prior to 3.08. The vulnerability arises when extracting tar archives: _make_special_file() passes the tar header’s linkname to symlink() without validating against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode protecting regul...

CVE-2026-42497

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to link without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode...

CVE-2007-4829

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences...

CVE-2007-4829

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences...