GHSA-W8WR-V893-VJVP node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion

Summary A crafted 2.5KB tar archive crashes any Node.js process that extracts it. The PAX header parser coerces all-digit path values to JavaScript numbers, which causes an uncaught TypeError when downstream code calls .split'/' on the numeric value. Error handlers and strict: false cannot...

Libarchive: heap overflow oob read while parsing a tar archive contains a pax extended header

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libarchive: heap overflow OOB read while parsing a tar archive contains a PAX extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

SUSE CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028 Libarchive: heap overflow oob read while parsing a tar archive contains a pax extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028 Libarchive: heap overflow oob read while parsing a tar archive contains a pax extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-15028

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 libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

PT-2026-57143

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive affected versions not specified Description A flaw in the parsing of a PAX extended header allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue specifically occurs when processi...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-53655

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.16, tar node-tar applies a PAX extended header's size= record and other PAX overrides to the next head...

CVE-2026-53655

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.16, tar node-tar applies a PAX extended header's size= record and other PAX overrides to the next header entry of any type, including intermediary metadata headers such as a GNU long-name L or long-link K entry. Per POSIX pax, a PAX extend...

CVE-2026-53655

node-tar (node-tar) before version 7.5.16 is vulnerable: it applies a PAX extended header size override to the next header entry, including intermediary L/K/x headers, which desynchronizes the stream cursor from other tar implementations. This yields a tar-parser interpretation differential (CWE-...

CVE-2026-53655

node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.16, tar node-tar applies a PAX extended header's size= record and other PAX overrides to the next header entry of any type, including intermediary metadata headers such as a GNU long-name L or long-link K entry. Per POSIX pax, a PAX extend...

astral-tokio-tar has a PAX Header Desynchronization issue

Impact Versions of astral-tokio-tar prior to 0.6.2 contain a PAX header interpretation bug that allows manipulated entries to be made selectively visible or invisible during extraction with astral-tokio-tar versus other tar implementations. An attacker could use this differential to smuggle...