Bug#886352: tar: garbage instead of owner set in TAR_OPTIONS

Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-09/msg5.html Tags: -1 + fixed-upstream http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=c2886473a803 (which is included in tar 1.30) fixes it for me. -- Jakub Wilk

Bug#886352: tar: garbage instead of owner set in TAR_OPTIONS

* Jakub Wilk , 2018-01-04, 21:01: $ export TAR_OPTIONS='--owner root --group root --mode go-r' $ tar -cvvf foo.tar /dev/null tar: Removing leading `/' from member names crw--w--w- `&uV/dev/null 1,3 2018-01-04 18:42 /dev/null Valgrind suggests it's a use-after-free: Invalid read of size 1

Bug#886352: tar: garbage instead of owner set in TAR_OPTIONS

Package: tar Version: 1.29b-2 $ export TAR_OPTIONS='--owner root --group root --mode go-r' $ tar -cvvf foo.tar /dev/null tar: Removing leading `/' from member names crw--w--w- `&uV/dev/null 1,3 2018-01-04 18:42 /dev/null -- System Information: Architecture: i386 Versions of packages tar depe