DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33055
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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | rust-tar | 0.4.45-2, 0.4.45-1, 0.4.44-1 |
| Debian:12 | rust-tar | 0.4.45-2, 0.4.45-1, 0.4.44-1 |
| Debian:11 | rustc | 1.70.0+dfsg1-4, 1.70.0+dfsg1-5, 1.70.0+dfsg1-6 |
| Debian:14 | rustc | 1.92.0+dfsg1-2~bpo13+1, 1.86.0+dfsg1-1, 1.86.0+dfsg1-1~bpo13+1 |
| Debian:14 | rust-tar | 0.4.44-1, 0, 0.4.43-4 |
| Debian:13 | rust-tar | 0.4.43-4, 0.4.44-1, 0 |
| Debian:13 | rustc | *, 0, 1.85.0+dfsg3-1 |
| Debian:12 | rustc | 1.94.1+dfsg1, 1.94.1+dfsg1, 1.94.1+dfsg1 |
Timeline
- Mar 20, 2026 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated