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readlink(2) does not NULL terminate the buffer it reads in, but tar expected it

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to do so.  This caused symlinks stored in tarballs to likely have trailing
crap in the stored symlink named.  Oops.
 -Erik
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Eric Andersen 2000-06-26 10:54:06 +00:00
parent 10dc9d4d17
commit 3adffb7fc8
2 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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archival/tar.c
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@ -824,12 +824,15 @@ writeTarHeader(struct TarBallInfo *tbInfo, const char *fileName, struct stat *st
/* WARNING/NOTICE: I break Hard Links */
if (S_ISLNK(statbuf->st_mode)) {
int link_size=0;
char buffer[BUFSIZ];
header.typeflag = SYMTYPE;
if ( readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) < 0) {
link_size = readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1);
if ( link_size < 0) {
errorMsg("Error reading symlink '%s': %s\n", header.name, strerror(errno));
return ( FALSE);
}
buffer[link_size] = '\0';
strncpy(header.linkname, buffer, sizeof(header.linkname));
} else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf->st_mode)) {
header.typeflag = DIRTYPE;

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@ -824,12 +824,15 @@ writeTarHeader(struct TarBallInfo *tbInfo, const char *fileName, struct stat *st
/* WARNING/NOTICE: I break Hard Links */
if (S_ISLNK(statbuf->st_mode)) {
int link_size=0;
char buffer[BUFSIZ];
header.typeflag = SYMTYPE;
if ( readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) < 0) {
link_size = readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1);
if ( link_size < 0) {
errorMsg("Error reading symlink '%s': %s\n", header.name, strerror(errno));
return ( FALSE);
}
buffer[link_size] = '\0';
strncpy(header.linkname, buffer, sizeof(header.linkname));
} else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf->st_mode)) {
header.typeflag = DIRTYPE;