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Fix multiple CVEs by updating node-tar to patched version - #774

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What does this PR do?

This PR fixes CVE-2026-59874 and CVE-2026-59873
node-tar version is updated to 7.5.22

What issues does this PR fix?

https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CRW-11759
https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CRW-11762

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sbouchet and others added 2 commits July 29, 2026 14:55
Fixes the following node-tar vulnerabilities across all 4 manifests
(code/, code/remote/, code/build/npm/gyp/, code/extensions/copilot/):

- CVE-2026-23745: Arbitrary File Overwrite (fixed in 7.5.3)
- CVE-2026-23950: Race Condition via Unicode (fixed in 7.5.4)
- CVE-2026-24842: Hardlink Arbitrary File Creation (fixed in 7.5.7)
- CVE-2026-26960: Hardlink Target Escape (fixed in 7.5.8)
- CVE-2026-29786: Hardlink Path Traversal (fixed in 7.5.10)
- CVE-2026-31802: Symlink Path Traversal (fixed in 7.5.11)
- CVE-2026-53655: PAX size override (fixed in 7.5.16)
- CVE-2026-59875: Uncaught Exception DoS via NUL byte (fixed in 7.5.17)
- CVE-2026-59874: Negative entry size infinite loop (fixed in 7.5.18)
- CVE-2026-59871: Process crash via PAX numeric path (fixed in 7.5.18)
- CVE-2026-59873: Decompression/parse DoS (fixed in 7.5.19)
- GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m: Uncontrolled recursion DoS (fixed in 7.5.21)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Bouchet <sbouchet@redhat.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Bouchet <sbouchet@redhat.com>
sbouchet and others added 2 commits July 29, 2026 14:57
Signed-off-by: Stephane Bouchet <sbouchet@redhat.com>
The tar override in code/extensions/copilot/package.json is redundant
since tar is already a direct devDependency pinned to ^7.5.22.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Bouchet <sbouchet@redhat.com>
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