RHSA-2026:0067MediumCVSS 5.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: tar security update

Published
January 5, 2026
Last Modified
September 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-45582 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-45582 — tar: Tar path traversal

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-2:1.34-9.el9_7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-2:1.34-9.el9_7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-2:1.34-9.el9_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-2:1.34-9.el9_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-2:1.34-9.el9_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debuginfo-2:1.34-9.el9_7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debuginfo-2:1.34-9.el9_7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debuginfo-2:1.34-9.el9_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debuginfo-2:1.34-9.el9_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debugsource-2:1.34-9.el9_7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debugsource-2:1.34-9.el9_7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debugsource-2:1.34-9.el9_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • tar-debugsource-2:1.34-9.el9_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Untrusted TAR archives should always be extracted in an empty directory. When multiple untrusted archives need to be extracted, the same directory must not be re-used without removing all content extracted form the previous archive before extracting the next archive.

🔗 References (5)