HIGH
ayuhito
CVE published 2026-10-12
CVE-2026-109380
A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in modern-tar versions 0.3.5 through 0.8.5. Attackers can supply a crafted archive to unpackTar() that buffers chunks indefinitely, exhausting process memory. This vulnerability allows attackers to produce negative entry sizes via non-octal bytes parsed by readOctal(), potentially leading to denial of service and impacting system stability. Defenders should assess [truncated]