From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i586) Description of problem: tar passes a null pointer to strlen() and segfaults when it it hits an inaccessible directory How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mkdir tarbug 2.chmod 0 tarbug 3.tar -c -f /dev/null --listed-incremental inc.out tarbug Actual Results: tar: tarbug: Cannot savedir: Permission denied Segmentation fault Expected Results: tar: tarbug: Cannot savedir: Permission denied Additional info:
Fixed in 1.13.19-5