SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2026:2714-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 324857

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2714-1 advisory.

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).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 tar, tar-lang and / or tar-rmt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 324857

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2714-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5704

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-rmt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-lang

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-5704

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2714-1

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