Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-33056: tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball containing a symlink entry followed by a directory entry with the same name causes the crate to treat the symlink target as a valid existing directory -- and subsequently apply chmod to it. This allows an attacker to modify the permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root. This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45. 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.
Fixed packages 15
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5 | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-data | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-debuginfo | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-debugsource | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-devel | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-doc | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-filesystem | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-freshclam | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-freshclam-debuginfo | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-lib | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-lib-debuginfo | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-milter | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamav1.5-milter-debuginfo | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamd1.5 | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | clamd1.5-debuginfo | 0:1.5.1-1.amzn2023.0.5 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Medium 5.1
tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero
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 co…
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Medium 5.1
tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks
tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() fo…