Rust TARmeggedon shows "abandonware" risks

TARmageddon is a high-severity logic bug in async-tar / tokio-tar that all the Rust in the world can't protect you from – and which was made much harder to patch because of abandonware.

Kiera Fields

Oct 21, 2025 - 2 min read

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