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Fedora 44 : tar (2026-0895af5ebe)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 296466

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-0895af5ebe advisory.

 Automatic update for tar-1.35-8.fc44.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Jan 21 2026 Pavel Cahyna <[email protected]> - 2:1.35-8
 - Backport upstream fix for savannah bug 65838, commit 1e6ce98e (fedora#2427654)
 - added padding with zeros info message (#2089298)
 - do not report disk error as file shrank (#2089316)
 - upstream fix for savannah bug 64581, commit 51142180 (crash with TAR_OPTIONS) (fedora#2389217)
 - Backport fix for regression in the --no-overwrite-dir option Upstream commit 4e742fc8674064a9fa00d4483d06aca48d5b0463, discussed in https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06445.html
 - Backport upstream changes to jailify extraction directory Includes related gnulib changes to add openat2 Fixes CVE-2025-45582 (fedora#2380007)

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected 2:tar package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0895af5ebe

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 296466

File Name: fedora_2026-0895af5ebe.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2026

Updated: 1/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-45582

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-45582