diff -ruN tar-1.13.25-orig/src/names.c tar-1.13.25/src/names.c
--- tar-1.13.25-orig/src/names.c	Wed Aug 29 14:33:54 2001
+++ tar-1.13.25/src/names.c	Sat Apr 19 21:12:11 2003
@@ -531,7 +531,8 @@
       if (p->regexp
 	  ? fnmatch (p->name, path, recursion_option) == 0
 	  : (p->length <= length
-	     && (path[p->length] == '\0' || ISSLASH (path[p->length]))
+	     && (path[p->length] == '\0' || ISSLASH (path[p->length]) &&
+                  (recursion_option || path[p->length + 1] == '\0'))
 	     && memcmp (path, p->name, p->length) == 0))
 	return p;
     }