diff --git a/src/bun.js/api/ExtractJob.zig b/src/bun.js/api/ExtractJob.zig
index 6d5e830e36..27f645d8fb 100644
--- a/src/bun.js/api/ExtractJob.zig
+++ b/src/bun.js/api/ExtractJob.zig
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ pub const ExtractJob = struct {
             }
 
             const key = try allocator.dupe(u8, normalized);
+            errdefer allocator.free(key);
             try this.files.put(key, buf);
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/bun.js/api/TarballJob.zig b/src/bun.js/api/TarballJob.zig
index 59ed50b10d..e81ba2a4bf 100644
--- a/src/bun.js/api/TarballJob.zig
+++ b/src/bun.js/api/TarballJob.zig
@@ -133,7 +133,10 @@ pub const TarballJob = struct {
         }
 
         if (this.destination) |destination| {
-            const file = std.fs.cwd().openFile(destination, .{}) catch return error.CannotOpenFile;
+            const file = (if (std.fs.path.isAbsolute(destination))
+                std.fs.openFileAbsolute(destination, .{})
+            else
+                std.fs.cwd().openFile(destination, .{})) catch return error.CannotOpenFile;
             defer file.close();
             this.bytes_written = (file.stat() catch return error.CannotStatFile).size;
         } else {