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CVE-2025-64118

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64118

Severity

Unknown
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Summary

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.

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