Source: rust-tar Version: 0.4.26-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/issues/238 X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for rust-tar. CVE-2021-38511[0]: | An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When | symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary | directories via .. traversal. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38511 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38511 [1] https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/issues/238 [2] https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
