EUVD-2026-52336

A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where the restore is being performed. During...

CVE-2026-18477

CVE-2026-18477 describes a TOCTOU flaw in GNU tar related to incremental dumpdir rename handling. A local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up can influence the restore process on the target system, causing files/directories to be created, renamed, or overwritten outside the ...

CVE-2026-18477

A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where the restore is being performed. During...

CVE-2026-18508

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

CVE-2026-18508

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

CVE-2026-18508 Tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

CVE-2026-18508 Tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

CVE-2026-18508

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

CVE-2026-18508

A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction working directory. A crafted archive can create hardlinks that escape the intended boundary...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-18477

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-18508

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory...

tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape

A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where the restore is being performed. During...

OESA-2026-3223 tar security update

GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in...

PYSEC-2026-2392 BBOT: Path traversal (Zip-Slip) in unarchive module - incomplete fix for CVE-2025-10284

The unarchive internal module's archive extraction commands perform no code-level validation on extracted file paths, relying entirely on the behavior of external tools e.g. GNU tar which varies by platform. While CVE-2025-10284 addressed git-specific RCE vectors, the underlying archive extractio...

K000161988: Go vulnerability CVE-2025-58183

Security Advisory Description tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions can cause a Reader to read an unbounded amount of data from the archive into...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in tar

In the sparse.c file of GNU Tar, before version 1.32, there was a NULL pointer dereferencing issue when parsing certain archives that contained malformed extended headers...

JLSEC-2026-184

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...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : golang (EulerOS-SA-2026-1240)

According to the versions of the golang packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : The Reader.ReadResponse function constructs a response string through repeated string concatenation of lines. When the number of lines in a respon...

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:...