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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-163:
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I may be missing it, but is the code that actaully reads the PAX header and
applies the size read available as well?
> Unable to extract a file larger than 8GB from a Posix-format tar archive
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> Key: COMPRESS-163
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-163
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Compressors
> Affects Versions: 1.3
> Environment: The tar archive used for testing was created by GNU tar,
> but the problem will occur with any Posix-formatted tar file containing files
> over 8GB in size.
> Reporter: John Kodis
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.4
>
> Attachments:
> 0003-Allow-reading-large-files-from-Posix-tar-archives.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> An attempt to read a posix-format tar archive containing a file in excess of
> 8^11 bytes in size will fail with a "Size out of range" illegal argument
> exception.
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