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High RHSA-2026:49523 1 CVE

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

Published Aug 3, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.2 perl-Archive-Tar 0:3.02-512.el10_2.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-9538

    Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header

    Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field i…

    BINGOS Archive::Tar perl perl Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481315
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_49523.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9538
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9538
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9538
  • article
    https://github.com/jib/archive-tar-new/commit/f9af01426038e29d9578825a0cd3626946ab08c7.patch
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/BINGOS/Archive-Tar-3.10/changes