Bug 2498791

Summary: CVE-2026-59874 sgx-pccs: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component: sgx-pccsAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Jon Moroney 2026-07-09 21:59:15 UTC
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node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, tar.replace accepts a checksum-valid tar header with a negative base-256 encoded entry size, causing the archive scanner to make no progress while repeatedly parsing the same header. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.