On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0100, Niels M?ller wrote: > So translators are not the first security problem with extracting > malicious tar-files.
You can get security problems with tarfiles if you don't get your tars from a trusted location and/or don't do tar -tf like Oystein Viggen said. This is just a general thing and hasn't anything to do with the Hurd or GNU. The solution is to make tar and tarfs ask the user before doing dangerous things by default. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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