TencentOS Server 4: tar (TSSA-2026:0104)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2026:0104 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (CVE-2018-20482)

GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite read loop in sparsedumpregion in sparse.c by modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process e.g., a system back...

JLSEC-2025-197 GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a...

GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an archive that contains a ../ symlink to a critical directory. Second, the victim must extract an archive that contains a critical file,...

EUVD-2005-1920

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2002-0396

Malware in sbrugna...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-39804

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c. CVE-2023-39804 Note that Nessus relies o...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-45582

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an...

CVE-2025-45582

A relative path traversal flaw was found in the gnu tar utility. When archives with relative paths are extracted without the ‘--keep-old-files’ ‘-k’, the extraction process may overwrite existing files that the current user has access to. The server may be impacted if these files are critical to...

CVE-2025-45582

GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an archive that contains a ../ symlink to a critical directory. Second, the victim must extract an archive that contains a critical file,...

PT-2025-29264

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU Tar versions through 1.35 Description: GNU Tar through version 1.35 is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability that allows for file overwrites within crafted TAR archives. The vulnerability requires a two-step process: first,...

CVE-1999-0202

The GNU tar command, when used in FTP sessions, may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48303

GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in fromheader in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace...

GNU tar denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2021-24265)

GNU Tar is a set of tools from the GNU community for creating files in tar format. A security vulnerability exists in tar 1.33 and earlier versions, which can be exploited by an attacker to submit a crafted input file to tar, resulting in uncontrolled memory consumption...

MGASA-2019-0034 GNU tar has been updated to fix CVE-2018-20482

GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite read loop in sparsedumpregion in sparse.c by modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process e.g., a system back...

GNU tar Denial of Service Vulnerability

GNU Tar is a set of tools developed by the GNU Project for creating files in tar format. A security vulnerability exists in GNU Tar versions 1.30 and earlier, which stems from the program's failure to properly handle file shrinking. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by modifying the...

CVE-2006-6097

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2005-1918

The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability CVE-2002-0399 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/"...

CVE-2002-1216

GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification that effectively disabled the security check...

CVE-2002-0399

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a 1 "/.." or 2 "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267...

CVE-2002-0399

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a 1 "/.." or 2 "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267...