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SUSE Tar Critical File Injection Security Vulnerability 2026-2714-1

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE issues important update for tar addressing critical security concerns. Ensure timely installation for security enhancements.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for tar fixes the following issues Security fixes: * CVE-2026-5704: crafted archives can be used to to hide file injection (bsc#1261900). Other fixes: * Fix tar changing dir permissions temporarily even when using --no-overwrite- dir. * Fix --dereference/-h not working properly after CVE-2025-45582 fix (bsc#1265450). * Fix extraction failure for paths like "a/./b" caused by the gnulib openat2 implementation (bsc#1267189). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2026-2714=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

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References

* bsc#1261900

* bsc#1265450

* bsc#1267189

Cross-

* CVE-2026-5704

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-5704 ( SUSE ): 5.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2026-5704 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-5704 ( NVD ): 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-5704 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

Severity
important
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2714-1
Release Date: 2026-06-30T12:05:34Z
Rating: important

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