full-disclosure - Re: GNU tar directory traversal

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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:00:25 +0100
From: virus@...og.org
To: Siim Põder <windo@...rad-teel.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: GNU tar directory traversal

Hello,

Siim Põder wrote:
> That has little to do with the actual vulnerability, hasn't it? It's a
> possible workaround though, so that's great.

that's not a workaround. tar is supposed to overwrite files. If you 
don't want that behavior, use "-w".

>>> Discussing wether root should ever run tar is irrelevant.
>> Agreed, the discussion whether root should *run* tar or not is 
 > I specifically said I didn't want to discuss this

Yeah. So don't comment my comments...

GTi

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