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Fedora 41: Significant Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2025-59825 Found

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Critical security update for rust-astral-tokio-tar addressing CVE-2025-59825 on Fedora 41. Protect your system!
Security update for path traversal CVE-2025-59825 / GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv.

Summary

A Rust implementation of an async TAR file reader and writer. This

library does not currently handle compression, but it is abstract over

all I/O readers and writers. Additionally, great lengths are taken to

ensure that the entire contents are never required to be entirely

resident in memory all at once.

Update Information:

Security update for path traversal CVE-2025-59825 / GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv.

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Change Log

* Wed Sep 24 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 0.5.5-1 - Update to version 0.5.5; fixes RHBZ#2397644 - Security fix for CVE-2025-59825 / GHSA-3wgq-wrwc-vqmv

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2397717 - CVE-2025-59825 uv: astral-tokio-tar path traversal [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397717 [ 2 ] Bug #2397721 - CVE-2025-59825 rust-astral-tokio-tar: astral-tokio-tar path traversal [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397721

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-414364f69d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: rust-astral-tokio-tar
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 0.5.5
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://crates.io/crates/astral-tokio-tar
Summary: Rust implementation of an async TAR file reader and writer

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security advisory fedora update important path traversal Rust application

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