5 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
naddy	224f8d7051	Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option. ... From upstream.	2010-06-12 15:17:11 +00:00
naddy	5615100fa3	Update to 1.16.1. User-visible changes: ... * New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files". * The --exclude-cache option now excludes the directories themselves, too. * Support for reading ustar type 'N' logical records has been removed. * Race conditions around 'tar -x --same-owner' have been fixed.	2006-12-14 20:29:00 +00:00
naddy	e448c78a4a	SECURITY: ... GNU tar allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link. (CVE-2006-6097)	2006-11-30 20:37:29 +00:00
naddy	bcb59cf546	Update to 1.13.94: ... - Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats. - Various option cleanups. - New message translations. - Bug fixes. Switch to .bz2 distfile since we already depend on bzip2 anyway.	2004-04-22 02:56:10 +00:00
brad	317d1a5f0a	Fix a directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.25 which allows ... attackers to overwrite arbitrary files durring extraction via a ".." in an extracted filename. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0399	2002-10-01 02:03:52 +00:00