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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
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| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade rust-debugger-commonUpgrade rustUpgrade rustfmtUpgrade rust-std-staticUpgrade rust-srcUpgrade rust-gdbUpgrade cargoUpgrade rust-toolset-srpm-macrosUpgrade rust-analyzerUpgrade clippyUpgrade rust-toolsetUpgrade rust-doc | May 20, 2026 | May 20, 2026 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade rustc | Sep 21, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 |
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