| Name | CVE-2026-5704 |
| Description | A flaw was found in tar. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerab ... |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1132999 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tar (PTS) | bullseye | 1.34+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.34+dfsg-1.2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 1.35+dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tar | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1132999 |
Notes
[trixie] - tar <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - tar <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - tar <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455360
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/11/10
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2026-03/msg00007.html
Fixed by: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=b8d8a61b25588caca4efaf9bdd2e3f1a49da77e3