tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb

A flaw was found in node-tar, a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to craft a small gzip bomb, which, when processed, can lead to the exhaustion of disk space and CPU resources. This occurs because node-tar does not enforce strict limits on t...

perl-Archive-Tar: perl-Archive-Tar: Denial of Service via crafted tar header with large entry size

A flaw was found in the perl-Archive-Tar component. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted tar header with an excessively large entry size field. This can lead to memory exhaustion, resulting in a Denial of Service DoS for the affected system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-Archive-Tar security update

An update for perl-Archive-Tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-Archive-Tar security update

An update for perl-Archive-Tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabili...

perl-Archive-Tar: perl-Archive-Tar: Denial of Service via crafted tar header with large entry size

A flaw was found in the perl-Archive-Tar component. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted tar header with an excessively large entry size field. This can lead to memory exhaustion, resulting in a Denial of Service DoS for the affected system...

perl-Archive-Tar: perl-Archive-Tar: Denial of Service via crafted tar header with large entry size

A flaw was found in the perl-Archive-Tar component. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted tar header with an excessively large entry size field. This can lead to memory exhaustion, resulting in a Denial of Service DoS for the affected system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-Archive-Tar security update

An update for perl-Archive-Tar is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabili...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-18477

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory...

Important: perl-Archive-Tar security update

Archive::Tar provides an object oriented mechanism for handling tar files. It provides class methods for quick and easy files handling while also allowing for the creation of tar file objects for custom manipulation. If you have the IO::Zlib module installed, Archive::Tar will also support...

RockyLinux 9 : nodejs:22 (RLSA-2026:47058)

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:47058 advisory. brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity CVE-2026-13149 tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar...

RHEL 9 : nodejs:22 (RHSA-2026:47058)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:47058 advisory. Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language...

ALSA-2026:49525 Important: perl-Archive-Tar security update

Archive::Tar provides an object oriented mechanism for handling tar files. It provides class methods for quick and easy files handling while also allowing for the creation of tar file objects for custom manipulation. If you have the IO::Zlib module installed, Archive::Tar will also support...

PT-2026-67425

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU tar affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists when extracting an archive using the --one-top-level option. Hardlink targets are not restricted to the designated top-level directory and may resolve relative to the extraction...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-18508

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 GNU tar. When extracting an archive with the --one-top-level option, hardlink targets are not confined to the designated top-level directory...

RockyLinux 9 : nodejs:24 (RLSA-2026:47057)

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:47057 advisory. brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity CVE-2026-13149 tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar...

AlmaLinux 8 : perl:5.32 (ALSA-2026:48225)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:48225 advisory. perl-Archive-Tar: perl-Archive-Tar: Denial of Service via crafted tar header with large entry size CVE-2026-9538 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

Debian dla-4712 : node-tar - security update

The remote Debian 12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-4712 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4712-1 [email protected]...

[SECURITY] [DLA 4712-1] node-tar security update

Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4712-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Daniel Leidert August 01, 2026 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : node-tar Version : 6.1.13+cs7.0.5-1+deb12u1 CVE ID : CVE-2024-28863 CVE-2026-23745 CVE-2026-26960 CVE-2026-29786 Multiple...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

An update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs is now available. This update includes the following RPMs: tar: tar-1.35-9.1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 tar-1.35-9.1.hum1.src src Security Fixes: tar: CVE-2026-18477...

tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape

A TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability in GNU tar's incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows a local attacker with write access to a directory being backed up to influence the restore process if the attacker has access to the system where the restore is being performed. During...