From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 15:50:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFDA16A5D0; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8D743D6B; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from David.Bear@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0I4J00A01YIJQ9@asu.edu>; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0I4J009I3YIJVI@asu.edu>; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.69.200]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id i8OFl571012933; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:05 -0700 (MST) Received: by moroni.pp.asu.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4C536E1F; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:46:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from post1.inre.asu.edu (post1.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.72]) by imap1.asu.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0/asu_cyrus,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id g572SwE23330 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from conversion.post1.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) david.bear@asu.edu) ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) with ESMTP id <0GXB00F1XDK99W@asu.edu> for iddwb@IMAP1.ASU.EDU (ORCPT david.bear@asu.edu); Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A44656421; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:53 -0700 Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) id 20BA537B409; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B7E92E800E; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:36 -0700 Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F4837B407; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g572SUmu049645; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 21:28:30 -0500 (CDT envelope-from dan) From: Dan Nelson In-reply-to: <20020606210833.W28206-100000@blues.jpj.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG To: dwbear75@gmail.com Message-id: <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Delivered-to: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Old-To: Trevor Johnson User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Lines: 22 References: <200206062245.g56Mjq319565@vega.vega.com> <20020606210833.W28206-100000@blues.jpj.net> X-Keywords: cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously createworld writeable dirs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:45 -0000 X-Original-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 21:28:30 -0500 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:45 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 06), Trevor Johnson said: > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several > > other lowel level dirs). The issue is under investigation. > > The latest version on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ is 1.13. The ones on > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ (and everything else on that site) are > considered unstable. I suppose it's too late to suggest tar 1.13 as a > starting point, but maybe this could be kept in mind when importing other > GNU products. Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are unusable, for example). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message