Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.17 buffer overflow on ARM

[Andrei Zlate]

On 10/20/2010 09:01 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 09:18 AM, Andrei Zlate wrote:
>   
>> I have tried the 1.23 version and it works perfectly, but I need a non
>> GPLv3 version
>>     
> Sorry, but we long ago moved on to GPLv3 and we don't support
> obsolete versions of 'tar'.  I suggest that you simply switch to the
> latest version of GNU tar and use that.  It's easy to comply with
> the new license -- much easier than it would be to maintain that
> obsolete version.
>   
Thank you very much for your reply. Unfortunately I cannot upgrade tar
because I'm working on a GPLv3 free product.
Anyway, I solved the issue in the meantime by back-porting
"tar-1.22-fortifysourcessigabrt.patch", which seems to fix the issue.

Regards.