Your message dated Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:46:08 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: cpio: Crashes when extracting tar file containing '.' has caused the Debian Bug report #851632, regarding cpio: Crashes when extracting tar file containing '.' to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cpio Version: 2.11+dfsg-6 Severity: important Tags: patch I mistakenly tried to extract a tar file using cpio, and it crashed. cpio does support tar files for some reason, but this feature seems to have regressed. Reproducer: tar --no-recursion -c . | cpio -i Patch: --- a/src/copyin.c +++ b/src/copyin.c @@ -1431,8 +1431,9 @@ process_copy_in () break; } - if (file_hdr.c_namesize <= 1) - file_hdr.c_name = xrealloc(file_hdr.c_name, 2); + if (archive_format != arf_tar && archive_format != arf_ustar + && file_hdr.c_namesize <= 1) + file_hdr.c_name = xrealloc(file_hdr.c_name, 2); cpio_safer_name_suffix (file_hdr.c_name, false, !no_abs_paths_flag, false); --- END --- Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cpio depends on: ii libc6 2.24-8 cpio recommends no packages. Versions of packages cpio suggests: pn libarchive1 <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.13+dfsg-4 Properly close this bug, it was marked as fixed already.
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