Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-8138-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-8138-2: tar-rs vulnerability

USN-8138-1 fixed a vulnerability in tar-rs. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a speciall...

USN-8138-2 rust-tar vulnerability

USN-8138-1 fixed a vulnerability in tar-rs. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a speciall...

USN-8168-2 rustc, rustc-1.76, rustc-1.77, rustc-1.78, rustc-1.79, rustc-1.80 vulnerability

USN-8168-1 fixed a vulnerability in Rust. This update provides the corresponding update to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archiv...

Amazon Linux 2 : rust, --advisory ALAS2-2026-3246 (ALAS-2026-3246)

The version of rust installed on the remote host is prior to 1.94.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-3246 advisory. A flaw in the gix-date library can generate invalid non-UTF8 strings, leading to undefined behavior when processed. The most...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Rust vulnerability (USN-8168-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8168-1 advisory. It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were...

USN-8168-1 rustc vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the...

PT-2026-32712

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in rustc incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the...

Medium: rust

Issue Overview: A flaw in the gix-date library can generate invalid non-UTF8 strings, leading to undefined behavior when processed. The most likely impact from a successful attack is to data integrity, by the malicious data being able to corrupt data being hold in memory and to system availabilit...

Medium: rust-cargo-c

Issue Overview: 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...

Amazon Linux 2023 : below (ALAS2023-2026-1567)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1567 advisory. 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 par...

Amazon Linux 2023 : cargo-c (ALAS2023-2026-1566)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1566 advisory. 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 par...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : tar-rs vulnerability (USN-8138-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8138-1 advisory. It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into...

Ubuntu 25.10 : cargo-c vulnerability (USN-8139-1)

The remote Ubuntu 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8139-1 advisory. It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in cargo-c incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processin...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2026-b4d393799a)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 42 : bpfman (2026-b4d393799a)

"The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-b4d393799a advisory. Fix CVE-2026-33056 tar-rs 0.4.45 %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Fedora...

USN-8139-1 rust-cargo-c vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in cargo-c incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside th...

USN-8138-1: tar-rs vulnerability

It was discovered that tar-rs incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root, a...

PT-2026-29964

It was discovered that tar-rs embedded in cargo-c incorrectly handled symlinks when unpacking a tar archive. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to modify permissions of arbitrary directories outside th...

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...