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Re: Security bug: tar allows to overwrite arbitrary file when extracting
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Security bug: tar allows to overwrite arbitrary file when extracting |
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:07:28 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:11:36 +0200 (CEST)
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> Is this security bug? Or is it intended behaviour?
It is a security bug, and it is not the intended behavior.
I could not reproduce the bug under Solaris 8, though.
Perhaps there is a difference in the way the Linux kernel works?
Can you investigate this?