Fedora 42 Security Fix for CVE-2025-62518 in Rust Libraries

Fedora 42 Security Fix for CVE-2025-62518 in Rust Libraries

First seen 3 Nov 2025, 10:56 UTC Linuxsecurity 20.6

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Fedora 42 has released a security update addressing CVE-2025-62518, which affects the reqsign and rust-tikv-jemallocator libraries. The vulnerability involves a parser desynchronization issue when reading tar archives with mismatched size information in PAX/ustar headers. This fix is included in the updated packages for uv 0.9.5 and rust-astral-tokio-tar 0.5.6.