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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.1 Medium

CVE-2025-64118

node-tar vulnerable to race condition leading to uninitialized memory exposure

Description

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. In 7.5.1, using .t (aka .list) with { sync: true } to read tar entry contents returns uninitialized memory contents if tar file was changed on disk to a smaller size while being read. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.2.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

isaacs node-tar

  • = 7.5.1affected

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