Moderate: tar security, bug fix, and enhancement update
The GNU tar program can save multiple files in an archive and restore files from an archive. Security Fix(es): * tar: Tar path traversal (CVE-2025-45582) * tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives (CVE-2026-5704) * tar: tar: TOCTOU in incremental dumpdir 'X' rename handling allows restore path escape (CVE-2026-18477) * tar: tar: --one-top-level hardlink targets not confined to top-level directory enabling arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2026-18508) Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * tar: --one-top-level with absolute path fails [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-144019) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
RLSA-2026:70390
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:RLSA-2026:70390
tar
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 2:1.30-13.el8_10
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2:1.30-13.el8_10"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}
}
],
"package": {
"name": "tar",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/tar?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=2",
"ecosystem": "Rocky Linux:8"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:70390.json"
}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #6060 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date