Bug 4208

Summary:	cpio infinite loop; cpio as root incorrectly sets file permissions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bugzilla
Component:	cpio	Assignee:	bero
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Description bugzilla 1999-07-27 00:44:24 UTC

GNU cpio 2.4.2 has a long-standing bug in it that
causes infinite loops when unpacking input files
with hard-linked empty files.

It also has a security problem in that it sets the
permissions on symlink targets instead of symlinks
when there is no lchown() system call.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-31 17:22:59 UTC

Fixed in cpio-2.4.2-13. Thanks for the patch.