Tar (Gnu) - vulnerabilities (CVEs)

20 CVEs, 0 in the last 30 days, 43 known versions, newest CVE from 2026-08-03. Vendor: Gnu.

CVEs of Tar

CVE-2026-18477 - CVSS 4.4 (medium), 2026-08-03: 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…
CVE-2026-18508 - CVSS 4.4 (medium), 2026-08-03: 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…
CVE-2026-5704 - CVSS 5.5 (medium), 2026-04-06: A flaw was found in tar. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious archive, leading to hidden file injection with fully…
CVE-2025-45582 - CVSS 4.1 (medium), 2025-07-11: GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an…
CVE-2023-39804 - CVSS 6.2 (medium), 2024-03-27: In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.
CVE-2022-48303 - CVSS 5.5 (medium), 2023-01-30: GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of…
CVE-2021-20193 - CVSS 3.3 (low), 2021-03-26: A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled…
CVE-2019-9923 - CVSS 7.5 (high), 2019-03-22: pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.
CVE-2018-20482 - CVSS 4.7 (medium), 2018-12-26: GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite…
CVE-2016-6321 - CVSS 7.5 (high), 2016-12-09: Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection…
CVE-2010-0624 - CVSS 6.8 (medium), 2010-03-15: Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows…
CVE-2007-4476 - CVSS 7.5 (high), 2007-09-05: Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
CVE-2007-4131 - CVSS 6.8 (medium), 2007-08-25: Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary…
CVE-2006-6097 - CVSS 4 (medium), 2006-11-24: GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES…
CVE-2006-0300 - CVSS 5.1 (medium), 2006-02-24: Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via…
CVE-2005-1918 - CVSS 2.6 (low), 2005-12-31: The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that…
CVE-2005-2541 - CVSS 10 (critical), 2005-08-10: Tar 1.15.1 does not properly warn the user when extracting setuid or setgid files, which may allow local users or remote attackers to gain privileges.
CVE-2002-1216 - CVSS 5 (medium), 2002-10-28: GNU tar 1.13.19 and other versions before 1.13.25 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, as the result of a modification…
CVE-2002-0399 - CVSS 5 (medium), 2002-10-10: Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during…
CVE-2001-1267 - CVSS 2.1 (low), 2001-07-12: Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file…