Description
In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | perl | 5.26.2-6 | — |
| Debian 13 | perl | 5.26.2-6 | — |
| Debian 12 | perl | 5.26.2-6 | — |
| Debian 9 | perl | 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 | DSA-4226-1 |
| Debian 8 | perl | 5.20.2-3+deb8u11 | DSA-4226-1 |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | perl | 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.1 | USN-3684-1 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | perl | 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.5 | USN-3684-1 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | perl | 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.6 | USN-3684-1 |
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 7 | perl-Archive-Tar | 1.92-3.el7 | RHSA-2019:2097 |
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| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl +10 | 5.42.2-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-AutoSplit +1 | 5.74-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-B | 1.89-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Benchmark +1 | 1.27-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Class-Struct | 0.68-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-DBM_Filter | 0.07-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Devel-Peek | 1.36-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Devel-SelfStubber | 1.06-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-DynaLoader | 1.57-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-English +1 | 1.11-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Errno | 1.38-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-ExtUtils-Constant | 0.25-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Fcntl +1 | 1.20-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-Basename | 2.86-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-Compare | 1.100.800-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-Copy | 2.41-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-DosGlob | 1.12-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-Find | 1.44-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-File-stat +3 | 1.14-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-FileHandle | 2.05-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-FindBin | 1.54-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-GDBM_File +1 | 1.24-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Hash-Util | 0.32-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-I18N-LangTags | 0.45-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-I18N-Langinfo | 0.24-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-IO | 1.55-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple | 0.21-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Math-Complex | 1.63-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Memoize +1 | 1.17-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Module-Loaded | 0.08-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-NDBM_File | 1.18-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-NEXT | 0.69-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Net +3 | 1.04-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Opcode | 1.69-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-POSIX | 2.23-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Pod-Html +1 | 1.35-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Safe | 2.47-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Search-Dict | 1.08-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-SelectSaver +2 | 1.02-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-SelfLoader | 1.28-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Symbol | 1.09-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Sys-Hostname | 1.25-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Term-Complete | 1.403-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Test | 1.31-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Thread | 3.06-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Thread-Semaphore | 2.13-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Tie | 4.6-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Tie-Memoize | 1.1-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Time-Piece | 1.3600-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-Unicode-UCD | 0.81-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-base +2 | 2.27-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-blib | 1.07-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-debugger | 1.60-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-deprecate | 0.04-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-encoding-warnings | 0.14-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-filetest +1 | 1.03-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-if | 0.61.000-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-less +1 | 0.03-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-lib | 0.65-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-mro | 1.29-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-open +1 | 1.13-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-overload +1 | 1.40-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-overloading | 0.02-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-sigtrap +2 | 1.10-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-sort | 2.06-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images 1 | perl-vars +2 | 1.05-524.1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7604 |
SUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLES 15 | perl | 5.26.1-7.3.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1977-1 |
| SLES 12 SP3 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES 12 SP2 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2, SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES 12 SP1 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES 12 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
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| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLES 11 SP4 | perl | 5.10.0-64.81.13.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 |
| SLES 11 SP3 | perl | 5.10.0-64.81.13.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 |
| SLES for SAP 12 SP3 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES for SAP 12 SP2 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES for SAP 12 SP1 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SLES for SAP 11 SP4 | perl | 5.10.0-64.81.13.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 | perl | 5.10.0-64.81.13.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 | perl | 5.18.2-12.14.1 | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 |
Alpine
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.24 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.23 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.22 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.21 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.20 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
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| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.19 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.18 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.17 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.16 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.15 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.14 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.13 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.12 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.11 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.10 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.9 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.8 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.7 | perl | 5.26.2-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.6 | perl | 5.24.4-r1 | — |
| Alpine v3.5 | perl | 5.24.4-r1 | — |
Amazon Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2 | perl-Archive-Tar | 1.92-3.amzn2 | ALAS2-2019-1330 |
Oracle Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 7 | perl-Archive-Tar | 1.92-3.el7 | ELSA-2019-2097 |
Advisories 11
- RHSA-2026:7604 Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Oct 15, 2026
- WID-SEC-2025-0212 Perl: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Manipulation von Dateien BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Jun 29, 2026
- RHSA-2019:2097 Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-Archive-Tar security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Apr 22, 2026
- USN-3684-1 perl vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Apr 22, 2026
- DSA-4226-1 perl - security update Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2 Security update for perl SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2018:1977-1 Security update for perl SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 Security update for perl SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2018:1992-1 Security update for perl SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- ALAS2-2019-1330 Moderate: perl-Archive-Tar security update (Amazon Linux 2) Amazon Linux Security Center (ALAS) · Oct 23, 2019
- ELSA-2019-2097 Moderate: perl-Archive-Tar security update (Oracle Linux 7) Oracle Linux Security Advisories (ELSA) · Aug 13, 2019
References
- 104423 vdb-entry
- 1041048 vdb-entry
- DSA-4226 vendor-advisory
- USN-3684-1 vendor-advisory
- USN-3684-2 vendor-advisory
- 20190326 APPLE-SA-2019-3-25-2 macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra mailing-list
- 20190326 APPLE-SA-2019-3-25-2 macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra mailing-list
- RHSA-2019:2097 vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900834
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180927-0001/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209600