PT-2026-56968

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions decompress versions prior to 4.2.2 Description An issue exists during archive extraction where arbitrary hardlink creation is possible. When processing hardlink entries type === 'link', the x.linkname field from the archive is passed directly ...

USN-8467-2: Perl vulnerabilities

USN-8467-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding fix for Perl on Ubuntu 25.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Perl's Archive::Tar module incorrectly handled symlink and hardlink targets during extraction. An attacker could use this issue to read ...

USN-8467-2 perl vulnerabilities

USN-8467-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding fix for Perl on Ubuntu 25.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Perl's Archive::Tar module incorrectly handled symlink and hardlink targets during extraction. An attacker could use this issue to read ...

MGASA-2026-0230 Updated perl-Archive-Tar package fixes security vulnerabilities

The updated package fixes security vulnerabilities: Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the...

Arbitrary File Overwrite

fstream is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite. The vulnerability exists as fstream allows overwriting an existing file on the system through extracting a hardlink...