CVE-2021-38511

Name	CVE-2021-38511
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	992173

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
rust-tar (PTS)	buster	0.4.20-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	0.4.26-1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	0.4.38-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
rust-tar	source	(unstable)	0.4.37-1			992173

Notes

[bullseye] - rust-tar <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - rust-tar <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html
https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/issues/238