Bug 2498783 - CVE-2026-59875 nodejs20: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted archive with NUL bytes in metadata [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-59875 nodejs20: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted archive with...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nodejs20
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jan Staněk
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Blocks: CVE-2026-59875
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Reported: 2026-07-09 21:47 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2026-09-23 03:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-07-30 12:15:34 UTC
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Description Jon Moroney 2026-07-09 21:47:59 UTC 
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node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.17, node-tar does not strip NUL bytes from PAX path and linkpath records in src/pax.ts, allowing a crafted archive with values to reach fs.lstat or fs.open and terminate the process with an uncaught exception. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.17.
Comment 1 Jan Staněk 2026-07-30 12:15:34 UTC 
nodejs20 is no longer supported by upstream, as it reached it's End-of-Life. We do not plan to release any more updates for it. Users are advised to migrate to a newer release (nodejs22, nodejs24).
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