[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#992173: rust-tar: CVE-2021-38511

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at 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