GNU Tar — Cyber Threats, Attacks & Incidents

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
1
occurrences
First Seen
July 6, 2026
Last Seen
July 6, 2026

Related Threat Clusters

  • Critical Vulnerability in Tar Utility Allows File Overwrites

    A vulnerability in the tar utility was discovered, affecting multiple Ubuntu versions. The issue arises from incorrect handling of symlinks during archive extraction, potentially allowing attackers to overwrite…

    7 articles · Updated July 6, 2026

Recent Intelligence Reports

  • Ubuntu 26.04 Tar Important File Overwrite Issue USN-8510-1 CVE-2025 — Linuxsecurity · July 6, 2026

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