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($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value.
A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
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| Description | Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$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. | |
| Title | Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-789 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-26T03:06:03.290Z
Reserved: 2026-05-25T23:04:04.116Z
Link: CVE-2026-9538
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Updated: 2026-05-26T02:30:26Z