tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero
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GHSA-gchp-q4r4-x4ff | tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero |
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Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.422% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:alexcrichton:tar-rs:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-843 | |
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