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.
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | modern-tar 0.3.5 through 0.8.5 Memory Exhaustion via Malformed Octal Size Field | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1284 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2026-10-12T20:55:11.774Z
Reserved: 2026-10-12T14:23:25.691Z
Link: CVE-2026-109380
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-12T21:17:11.153
Modified: 2026-10-12T21:17:11.153
Link: CVE-2026-109380
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