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<h1>Security update for tar</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2026:2615-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-06-24T09:02:40Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246399">bsc#1246399</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-16073">jsc#PED-16073</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-45582.html">CVE-2025-45582</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-45582</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
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<span class="cvss-score">8.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-45582</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.8</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-45582</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.1</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L</span>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
</ul>
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<p>An update that solves one vulnerability and contains one feature can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for tar fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Upgrade tar to version 1.34 (jsc#PED-16073).</p>
<p>Security issues fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2025-45582: file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives (bsc#1246399).</li>
</ul>
<p>Other updates and bugfixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Changes from 1.28:</li>
<li>New --one-top-level option: extract all files into a subdirectory named after the archive base name</li>
<li>New --sort option: sort directory entries by name or inode when creating archives</li>
<li>New exclusion options: --exclude-ignore, --exclude-ignore-recursive, and --exclude-vcs-ignores</li>
<li>New checkpoint action: totals; extended checkpoint format specifiers</li>
<li>Official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages now provided upstream</li>
<li>Refuse to read from or write archives to a tty device</li>
<li>Changes from 1.29:</li>
<li>New --verbatim-files-from option: treat each line in a file list as a literal file name regardless of leading
dashes</li>
<li>Changes from 1.30:</li>
<li>Member names containing '..' components are now skipped on extraction (security hardening)</li>
<li>Erroneous use of position-sensitive options is now reported</li>
<li>--numeric-owner now applies to private (pax) headers too</li>
<li>Fixed --delay-directory-restore in several edge cases</li>
<li>New --warnings=failed-read option to suppress unreadable-file warnings when combined with --ignore-failed-read</li>
<li>Changes from 1.32:</li>
<li>POSIX extended format headers no longer include PID by default</li>
<li>Wildcards in --exclude-vcs-ignore mode no longer match slashes</li>
<li>Fixed --no-overwrite-dir option</li>
<li>Fixed handling of chained renames in incremental backups</li>
<li>Link counting works for file names supplied via -T</li>
<li>Changes from 1.33:</li>
<li>Fix extraction over pipe</li>
<li>Fix memory leak in read_header</li>
<li>Fix extraction when . and .. are unreadable</li>
<li>Gracefully handle duplicate symlinks when extracting</li>
<li>Re-initialise supplementary groups when switching to user privileges</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
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<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2026-2615=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-2615=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>tar-debugsource-1.34-15.27.1</li>
<li>tar-debuginfo-1.34-15.27.1</li>
<li>tar-1.34-15.27.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (noarch)
<ul>
<li>tar-lang-1.34-15.27.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>tar-debugsource-1.34-15.27.1</li>
<li>tar-debuginfo-1.34-15.27.1</li>
<li>tar-1.34-15.27.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (noarch)
<ul>
<li>tar-lang-1.34-15.27.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-45582.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-45582.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246399">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246399</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-16073">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-16073</a>
</li>
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