GHSA-GVWX-54WH-QM9J node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

Summary node-tar strips trailing NUL bytes from long-name L and long-linkpath K GNU extended headers but does not apply the same sanitization to equivalent fields delivered via PAX x typeflag extended headers. A PAX record of the form path=visible.txt\x00hidden.txt is parsed verbatim into...

CVE-2026-59875 node-tar: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte in PAX path/linkpath records

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is...