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regarding bsdtar: can't add files with //multiple/leading/slashes
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: bsdtar
Version: 3.1.2-10
Severity: minor
I wanted to create a tar archive with a path that had multiple leading
slashes[0]. But this doesn't seem to be possible with bsdtar:
$ bsdtar -Pcf test.tar //bin/true && tar -Ptf test.tar
/bin/true
For comparison, GNU tar is happy to create such an archive:
$ tar -Pcf test.tar //bin/true && tar -Ptf test.tar
//bin/true
[0] In case you wonder why would anyone want to do that:
I'm trying to craft archives for testing various archive extraction
software against directory traversal:
https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/path-traversal-samples
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages bsdtar depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libarchive13 3.1.2-10
ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b2
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii liblzo2-2 2.08-1.2
ii libnettle4 2.7.1-4
ii libxml2 2.9.2+dfsg1-1+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
--
Jakub Wilk
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--- Begin Message ---
Upstream has reviewed this report and concluded that no change is necessary.
See the upstream discussion:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/740
Closing this Debian bug accordingly.
Thanks.
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