CVE-2026-9538

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. readtar reads each entry's payload with $handle-read$$data, $block, where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that...

EUVD-2026-31775

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. readtar reads each entry's payload with $handle-read$$data, $block, where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that...

CVE-2026-42496 Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory

Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. makespecialfile passes the tar header's linkname to symlink without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular...