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Re: tar can be used to damage a system
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: tar can be used to damage a system |
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Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:53:46 -0800 (PST) |
> From: root <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:52:34 -0500 (EST)
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> It has recently occured to me that a bogus tar file can be
> used to attack a system
To you and to about a zillion other people. :-)
Please try the following test version of GNU tar, which attempts to
catch such problems:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz