Bug#802702: CVE-2011-5325: busybox: Directory traversal via crafted tar file which contains a symlink pointing outside of the current directory

[Chris Lamb]

> Any idea why the resolution of this issue did not move any further?  I notice 
> from
> the upstream tracker that hardlinks might be a problem too.

Indeed, the hardlink part was blocking it.

IIRC it was deemed to be low-priority from an LTS point of view so/and I could 
not justify spending more time on it then. Happy to look again if there is a 
more urgent requirement.


Regards,

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