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Stefan Bodewig resolved COMPRESS-337.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
actually "can't fix". Somebody seems to be creating invalid archives and
neither we nor GNU tar can read them.
> TAR header parsing attempts OLDGNU format on POSIX/STAR header
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>
> Key: COMPRESS-337
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-337
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Archivers
> Affects Versions: 1.10
> Reporter: Jeremy Gustie
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> This is at least tangentially related to COMPRESS-336, we found an archive
> which is misinterpreted as an OLDGNU header format when it appears to some
> type of STAR header (unlike COMPRESS-336 this one uses a NULL delimiter
> instead of space terminators for the time stamps). Apparently the archive
> itself comes from an [EyeFi
> card|https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5290](?!).
> Both the original archive ([available
> here|https://storage.googleapis.com/go-attachment/5290/0/in.tar]) and the
> (presumably hand made) version for testing
> ([here|https://github.com/golang/go/raw/master/src/archive/tar/testdata/nil-uid.tar])
> exhibit the same behavior: they fail with an {{IllegalArgumentException}}
> attempting to parse the old GNU {{realSize}} from a buffer partially filled
> with the {{atime}}/{{ctime}} values.
> At first I thought if the {{TarArchiveEntry.evaluateType}} were to also look
> at the {{version}} field for {{VERSION_GNU_SPACE}} before returning
> {{FORMAT_OLDGNU}} it _should_ be enough (according to something I saw in [the
> GNU documentation|http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC184]
> which defines {{OLDGNU_MAGIC "ustar " /* 7 chars and a null */}}).
> Unfortunately it looks like that is the magic/version used by the archives in
> question, leaving me stumped as to how to identify which of the three
> prevailing header formats needs to be parsed.
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