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Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 strips leading or contained './'


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 strips leading or contained './'
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:21:18 +0200

> As above.  Having a path start with './' or containing '/./' is not
> a security risk, and even used by some archiving apps as security
> measure (like unzip that appends './').  This behaviour breaks reacent
> tarballs (among those are tcpdump-3.8.1.tar.gz, and most ones in RH
> src.rpm's).

Yes, Martin, you are are right. I've already fixed this in the repository.

Regards,
Sergey




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