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Re: [Bug-tar] possible out of bounds access on grandchild error


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] possible out of bounds access on grandchild error
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:08:12 +0300

Hi Tobias,

> If tar is called with a specific decompressor, like "tar -xz", the
> function first_decompress_program will return a fixed value.  In this
> case it would be "gzip".  If the execution of gzip fails or gzip is
> not found, next_decompress_program will be called.

In this case, next_decompress_program will return NULL immediately,
without trying to use its argument.

Regards,
Sergey



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