tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for tar. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from ...

RLSA-2026:61581 Moderate: tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fixes: tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives CVE-2026-5704 tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape CVE-2026-18477 tar: tar:...

RockyLinux 9 : tar (RLSA-2026:61581)

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:61581 advisory. tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives CVE-2026-5704 tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escap...

AlmaLinux 9 : tar (ALSA-2026:61581)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:61581 advisory. tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives CVE-2026-5704 tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

Moderate: tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fixes: tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives CVE-2026-5704 tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape CVE-2026-18477 tar: tar:...

RHEL 9 : tar (RHSA-2026:61581)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61581 advisory. The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fixes: tar: tar: Hidden file injectio...

ALSA-2026:61586 Moderate: tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fixes: tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives CVE-2026-5704 tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape CVE-2026-18477 tar: tar:...

CVE-2026-81727 NLTK before 3.10.3 Hardlink File Overwrite via downloader

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a filesystem containment bypass vulnerability in the Downloader.download and Downloader.incrdownload methods that allows attackers to overwrite files outside the install root through pre-existing hardlinks. Attackers with write access to a shared downloader...

CVE-2026-81727

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 are affected by a filesystem containment bypass in the Downloader.download and Downloader.incr_download methods. An attacker with write access to a shared downloader directory can create hardlinks pointing to files outside the install root, which are then overwritten d...

CVE-2026-81727 NLTK before 3.10.3 Hardlink File Overwrite via downloader

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a filesystem containment bypass vulnerability in the Downloader.download and Downloader.incrdownload methods that allows attackers to overwrite files outside the install root through pre-existing hardlinks. Attackers with write access to a shared downloader...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20990

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive...

GHSA-J44M-QM6P-HP7M Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Versions of tar prior to 4.4.2 for 4.x and 2.2.2 for 2.x are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20834

A vulnerability was found in node-tar before version 4.4.2 excluding version 2.2.2. An Arbitrary File Overwrite issue exists when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This...