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...

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...

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...