tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header

A flaw was found in node-tar, a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted tar archive with a negative entry size in its header. This malformed header causes the archive scanner to enter an infinite loop,...

Infinite loop

Overview org.webjars.npm:tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop via the replace method. An attacker can cause the archive scanner to enter an infinite loop by providing a tar header with a negative base-256 encoded entry size...

CVE-2026-59874 node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replace

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, tar.replace accepts a checksum-valid tar header with a negative base-256 encoded entry size, causing the archive scanner to make no progress while repeatedly parsing the same header. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18...