The vulnerability of the fs::metadata() function in the tar-reading and writing library for the Rust language allows a attacker to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the fs::metadata function in the tar-reading and writing library for the Rust language, tar-rs, is related to the tracking of symbolic references in UNIX systems. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to gain increased privileges...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

CVE-2026-33055

tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: rust-astral-tokio-tar-0.5.6-1.fc42

A Rust implementation of an async TAR file reader and writer. This library does not currently handle compression, but it is abstract over all I/O readers and writers. Additionally, great lengths are taken to ensure that the entire contents are never required to be entirely resident in memory all ...