CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

EUVD-2026-31774

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...

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...

PT-2026-43166

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Archive::Tar versions prior to 3.10 Description Archive::Tar for Perl allows memory exhaustion when processing a tar header with an attacker-controlled entry size field. The read tar function reads each entry's payload using $handle-read$$data...

PT-2026-43163

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Archive::Tar versions prior to 3.08 Description Archive::Tar for Perl allows the extraction of hardlinks to attacker-controlled paths outside the intended extraction directory. The function make special file passes the tar header's linkname to...

CVE-2026-42497: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

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...

Low: python3.13-pip

Issue Overview: pip handles concatenated tar and ZIP files as ZIP files regardless of filename or whether a file is both a tar and ZIP file. This behavior could result in confusing installation behavior, such as installing "incorrect" files according to the filename of the archive. New behavior...

Pear Archive_Tar security vulnerability

Pear ArchiveTar is a PHP-based software developed by the PEAR team that allows for creating and extracting tar packages. Prior to version 3.08, Pear ArchiveTar had a security vulnerability. This vulnerability stemmed from the makespecialfile function, which passed the linkname of the tar header t...

CVE-2026-9538: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

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...

Important: golang-github-burntsushi-toml

Issue Overview: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseForm CVE-2025-61726 archive/zip: denial of service when parsing arbitrary ZIP archives CVE-2025-61728 Within HostnameError.Error, when constructing an error string, there is no limit to the number of hosts that will be printed out...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : NLTK vulnerabilities (USN-8302-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8302-1 advisory. It was discovered that NLTK incorrectly validated file paths when opening files...

Amazon Linux 2023 : python3.14-pip, python3.14-pip-wheel (ALAS2023-2026-1718)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1718 advisory. pip handles concatenated tar and ZIP files as ZIP files regardless of filename or whether a file is both a tar and ZIP file. This behavior could result in confusing installation behavior, such as...

archive-tar-new security vulnerability

archive-tar-new is a Perl module developed by Jos Boumans, used for creating and manipulating tar files in memory. Versions of archive-tar-new prior to version 3.10 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from the readtar function, which did not set an upper limit when...

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...

PT-2026-43162

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Archive::Tar versions prior to 3.08 Description Archive::Tar for Perl allows the extraction of symlinks with attacker-controlled targets located outside the extraction directory. The function make special file passes the tar header's linkname ...

Pear Archive_Tar security vulnerability

Pear ArchiveTar is a PHP-based software developed by the PEAR team that allows for creating and extracting tar packages. Prior to version 3.08, Pear ArchiveTar had a security vulnerability. This vulnerability stemmed from the makespecialfile function, which passed the linkname of the tar header t...

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-2026-42496: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...