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

In libarchive, CVE-2026-15028 describes a heap overflow triggered while parsing a tar archive’s PAX extended header with a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely to cause DoS or potentially arbitrary code execution on affected systems. The root ca...