HIGHCVE-2026-9538Published Modified CNA CPANSec
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 in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 3.10
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- BINGOS / Archive::Tar< 3.10 (from 0)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NReferences