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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59871

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces all-digit PAX path and linkpath values in src/pax.ts to JavaScript numbers, causing downstream path handling such as normalizeWindowsPath(entry.path).split('/') to throw an uncaught TypeError. This issue is fixed in version 7.5.18.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 node-tar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 node-tar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 node-tar

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7.5.19+~4.0.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org