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authorJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2018-04-07 08:41:46 -0700
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2018-04-13 11:05:01 +0300
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--one-top-level: avoid a heap-buffer-overflow
* NEWS: Mention this. * src/suffix.c (strip_compression_suffix): Fix string comparison guard. Without this change, some ASAN-enabled test runs would fail with the following. Also, strip an additional .tar suffix only if the just- stripped suffix did not match /^\.t/". ==30815==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x6020000002ed at pc 0x00000049d1f4 bp 0x7ffeb5906d50 sp 0x7ffeb5906500 READ of size 1 at 0x6020000002ed thread T0 SCARINESS: 12 (1-byte-read-heap-buffer-overflow) #0 0x49d1f3 in __interceptor_strncmp /j/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:407 #1 0x5670f3 in strip_compression_suffix /j/tar/src/suffix.c:107 #2 0x575788 in decode_options /j/tar/src/tar.c:2545 #3 0x5760c0 in main /j/tar/src/tar.c:2708 #4 0x7f105090df29 in __libc_start_main ../csu/libc-start.c:308 #5 0x408629 in _start (/j/tar/src/tar+0x408629) 0x6020000002ed is located 3 bytes to the left of 6-byte region [0x6020000002f0,0x6020000002f6) allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0x4d0710 in __interceptor_malloc /j/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cc:86 #1 0x4908ad in __interceptor_strndup /j/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:326 #2 0x5cbcbd in xstrndup /j/tar/gnu/xstrndup.c:32 #3 0x5a325b in base_name /j/tar/gnu/basename.c:57 #4 0x575772 in decode_options /j/tar/src/tar.c:2544 #5 0x5760c0 in main /j/tar/src/tar.c:2708 #6 0x7f105090df29 in __libc_start_main ../csu/libc-start.c:308
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@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2018-03-18
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2018-04-07
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
version 1.30.90 (Git)
+* Fix heap-buffer-overrun with --one-top-level.
+Bug introduced with the addition of that option in 1.28.
+
* Support for zstd compression
New option '--zstd' instructs tar to use zstd as compression program.
@@ -53,7 +56,7 @@ causing subsequent link extractions in that directory to fail.
This new warning control option suppresses warning messages about
unreadable files and directories. It has effect only if used together
-with the --ignore-failed-read option.
+with the --ignore-failed-read option.
* The --warnings=none option now suppresses all warnings