tar no longer extracting with setuid bits

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 00:31:47 PST 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:05 +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 11 February 2007 23:24, Stephane Billiart wrote:
> > While trying to upgrade from busybox 1.2.2.1 to 1.4.1, I noticed that
> > setuid files in tar files are no longer created with the setuid bit
> > while running as root.
> > 
> > The attached patch (which partially reverts r15775 of
> > archival/libunarchive/data_extract_all.c) fixes the problem.
> 
> Applied, thanks!

Could this also be added to fixes-1.4.1, please?

Thanks!

Natanael Copa



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