Oracle Linux 8 : perl-Archive-Tar (ELSA-2026-30852)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-30852 advisory. - Fix CVE-2026-42496: validate symlink and hardlink targets in secure extract mode - Fixes CVE-2018-12015 directory traversal bug 1588761 Tenable has extracted...

Oracle Linux 9 : perl-Archive-Tar (ELSA-2026-30856)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-30856 advisory. - Fix CVE-2026-42496: validate symlink and hardlink targets in secure extract mode Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Orac...

perl-Archive-Tar security update

2.30-2 - Fix CVE-2026-42496: validate symlink and hardlink targets in secure extract mode - Resolves: RHEL-181654 2.30-1 - 2.30 bump 2.28-1 - 2.28 bump - Fixes CVE-2018-12015 directory traversal bug 1588761 2.26-6 - Do not run optional test on RHEL 2.26-5 - Rebuilt for...

OESA-2026-2678 perl-Archive-Tar security update

archive::Tar provides an object oriented mechanism for handling tar files. It provides class methods for quick and easy files handling while also allowing for the creation of tar file objects for custom manipulation. If you have the IO::Zlib module installed, Archive::Tar will also support...

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...