node-tar applies PAX size override to intermediary GNU long-name/long-link headers, causing tar parser interpretation differential (file smuggling)

Summary tar node-tar applies a PAX extended header's size= record and other PAX overrides to the next header entry of any type, including intermediary metadata headers such as a GNU long-name L or long-link K entry. Per POSIX pax, a PAX extended header x describes the next file entry, not the...

CVE-2026-32766

astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.6 and earlier, malformed PAX extensions were silently skipped when parsing tar archives. This silent skipping rather than rejection of invalid PAX extensions could be used as a building block for a parser...

Insufficient validation of PAX extensions during extraction

In versions 0.5.6 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, malformed PAX extensions were silently skipped when parsing tar archives. This silent skipping rather than rejection of invalid PAX extensions could be used as a building block for a parser differential, for example by silently skipping a malform...