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Re: [Full-disclosure] GNU tar directory traversal



Yo!

virus@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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".

But not outside cwd or another directory specified by the -C option.
Agreed? Great.

Siim Põder

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