[El-errata] ELSA-2026-30852 Important: Oracle Linux 8 perl-Archive-Tar security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Jun 30 12:29:03 UTC 2026


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2026-30852

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-30852.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
perl-Archive-Tar-2.30-2.el8_10.noarch.rpm

aarch64:
perl-Archive-Tar-2.30-2.el8_10.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/perl-Archive-Tar-2.30-2.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2026-42496




Description of changes:

[2.30-2]
- Fix CVE-2026-42496: validate symlink and hardlink targets in secure
  extract mode
- Resolves: RHEL-181654

[2.30-1]
- 2.30 bump

[2.28-1]
- 2.28 bump
- Fixes CVE-2018-12015 (directory traversal) (bug #1588761)

[2.26-6]
- Do not run optional test on RHEL

[2.26-5]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[2.26-4]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild

[2.26-3]
- Perl 5.26 re-rebuild of bootstrapped packages

[2.26-2]
- Perl 5.26 rebuild

[2.26-1]
- 2.26 bump

[2.24-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild




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