CVE-2026-109380 in modern-tar
Zusammenfassung
von MITRE • 13.10.2026
modern-tar 0.3.5 through 0.8.5 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability that allows attackers to produce negative entry sizes via non-octal bytes parsed by readOctal(). Attackers can supply a crafted, optionally gzip-compressed, archive to unpackTar() that buffers chunks indefinitely, exhausting process memory and suppressing later entries.
VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.