Bug 149686 - tar behaviour changed
Summary: tar behaviour changed
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tar
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-25 08:33 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-07-18 14:36:15 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2005-02-25 08:33:31 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Epiphany/1.4.4

Description of problem:
If a .tgz archive contains an entry such as
 dr-xr-xr-x root/sys          0 2004-04-19 18:17:50 ./
then extracting it in /tmp/ will change the permissions on that directory, removing the sticky bit, and confusing applications.

Distro    Version         Changes permissions on .?
RHEL 3    1.13.25-13      No
Sarge     1.13.93-4       Yes
Fedora 3  1.14-4          Yes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
x

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2005-03-25 15:15:20 UTC
$ ls -l | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt   23 root root  4096 Mar 25 15:41 tmp
$ cd tmp
$ tar -tvzf pok.tgz
drwxrwxrwx peter/peter       0 2005-03-25 15:41:06 ./
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    4152 2005-03-04 13:34:47 ./mrtprecv.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    4149 2005-03-04 13:34:55 ./mrtpsend.c
-rw-rw-r-- peter/peter       0 2005-03-25 15:41:06 ./pok.tgz
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter     560 2005-03-04 13:25:55 ./Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    2576 2005-03-04 13:36:31 ./tevrtpsend.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    4520 2005-03-04 14:42:54 ./tevmrtprecv.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    3859 2005-03-04 13:35:17 ./rtprecv.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter   18866 2005-03-15 12:30:22 ./Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    2883 2005-03-04 13:35:28 ./rtpsend.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    2780 2005-03-04 13:36:12 ./tevrtprecv.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    3779 2005-03-04 13:35:07 ./rtpmemtest.c
-rw-r--r-- peter/peter    1246 2005-03-04 13:35:40 ./test_timer.c
$ tar -xvzf pok.tgz
./
./mrtprecv.c
./mrtpsend.c
./pok.tgz
./Makefile.am
./tevrtpsend.c
./tevmrtprecv.c
./rtprecv.c
./Makefile.in
./rtpsend.c
./tevrtprecv.c
./rtpmemtest.c
./test_timer.c
tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxrwxr-t: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
$ ls -l / | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt   23 root root  4096 Mar 25 15:49 tmp

Tar only remove the sticky bit from /tmp only when u run it as a root.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2005-03-25 15:38:18 UTC
Yes, and this doesn't happen in RHEL3, tar 1.13.25-13.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2005-06-06 08:31:55 UTC
This behaviour change, different from RHEL3, is causing me a tremendous amount
of grief.

Why?

I have an a tar archive whose first entry is "the current directory" with
no-write permissions. tar fails because my current directories write permissions
have been turned off. Great!

Comment 4 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 20:58:28 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 5 Peter Vrabec 2006-07-18 14:36:15 UTC
I have found same upstream bug report:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-04/msg00004.html

using patch from upstream
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/tar/tar/src/extract.c?r1=1.89&r2=1.90&diff_format=u

fixed in tar-1.15.90-4



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