cpython: cpython: `tarfile` module misinterprets crafted tar archives leading to data integrity issues

A flaw was found in the tarfile module of cpython. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to craft a malicious tar archive that, when processed, could be misinterpreted by the tarfile module. This misinterpretation occurs because the module incorrectly applies normalization of AREGTYPE block...

Microsoft Windows TAR File Parsing NTLM Relay Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to relay NTLM credentials on affected installations of Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of T...

AlmaLinux 8 : python3.11 (ALSA-2025:14841)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:14841 advisory. cpython: Cpython infinite loop when parsing a tarfile CVE-2025-8194 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security...

Important: python3

Issue Overview: There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives. CVE-2024-6232 Affected Packages: python3 Note: This advisory is...

node-tar vulnerable to denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

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Denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders count validation

Description: During some analysis today on npm's node-tar package I came across the folder creation process, Basicly if you provide node-tar with a path like this ./a/b/c/foo.txt it would create every folder and sub-folder here a, b and c until it reaches the last folder to create foo.txt, In-thi...

USN-3550-1 clamav vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain mail messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-12374, CVE-2017-12375, CVE-2017-12379, CVE-2017-12380 It was discovered...

CVE-2012-1459

The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal aka Cat QuickHeal 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo...

CVE-2012-1427

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal aka Cat QuickHeal 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \57\69\6E\5A\69\70 character sequence at a certain location. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multipl...

CVE-2012-1421

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal aka Cat QuickHeal 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, and AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial MSCF character sequence. NOTE:...