Bug 2490697

Summary: CVE-2026-55738 imhex: microtar: Arbitrary code execution and denial of service via crafted TAR archive [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Srikanth Balasubramanian <sbalasub>
Component: imhexAssignee: Jonathan Wright <jonathan>
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-06-19 08:59:59 UTC
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