Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library.
Edera made public today their discovery of a critical boundary-parsing bug in the async-tar Rust library and downstream forks like tokio-tar. TARmageddon is rated as a “high” severity bug and can lead to remote code execution through file overwriting attacks.
Phoronix comment sections never fail to be cesspools
Someone should train an llm on these guys
god no. some of the comments are so misinformed that i wonder whether they are actual software people at all.
No language can catch a logic bug.