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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:35:03 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Aaron Namba" <aaron@namba1.com>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <AGEPIAHMBGINOAKELHMPMEOCDOAA.aaron@namba1.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20021001104558.00d3f900@localhost>

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At 11:15 AM 10/1/2002, Aaron Namba wrote:
  
>It would appear so.
>
>59 > sh tartest
>/../../../../../../..//tmp/foo/bar
>/../../../../../../..//tmp/foo/bar
>/usr/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
>Your tar is vulnerable

Unfortunately, GNU tar has become so pervasive
that even OpenBSD (which avoids GNU software) uses
it. Gotta break this dependency upon GPLed code.

--Brett


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