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.

By Kiera Fields

Updated Oct 22, 2025 10:51 AM / Published Oct 21, 2025 7:38 PM 2 min read

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Kiera Fields

Kiera Fields is head of special projects at The Stack and was previously at Business Insider. She writes about leadership, tech and business, covering everything from earnings calls to C-suite interviews.