EUVD-2026-13596
GHSA-gchp-q4r4-x4ff
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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4Description
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 case where it was different from the base header. This is almost the inverse of the astral-tokio-tar issue. Any discrepancy in how tar parsers honor file size can be used to create archives that appear differently when unpacked by different archivers. In this case, the tar-rs (Rust tar) crate is an outlier in checking for the header size - other tar parsers (including e.g. Go archive/tar) unconditionally use the PAX size override. This can affect anything that uses the tar crate to parse archives and expects to have a consistent view with other parsers. This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.
Analysis
The tar-rs Rust library versions 0.4.44 and below contain a logic flaw where PAX (POSIX.1-2001) size headers are conditionally skipped when the base tar header size is nonzero, causing the library to parse tar archives differently than other standard tar implementations like Go's archive/tar. This discrepancy allows an attacker to craft malicious tar archives that appear different when unpacked by tar-rs versus other parsers, potentially leading to information disclosure or file confusion attacks. …
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Ubuntu
Priority: Medium| Release | Status | Version |
|---|---|---|
| focal | needs-triage | - |
| jammy | needs-triage | - |
| noble | needs-triage | - |
| questing | needs-triage | - |
| upstream | needs-triage | - |
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