Re: Directory traversal vulnerabilities in several archivers processing .tar

[der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>]

> [...how tarfile readers don't check for .. components...]

> Affected
> [long list]

Not affected: my tar, when run with the appropriate option to make it
paranoid about extraction.  (With the option set, it refuses to extract
anything that would be placed anywhere not under the current
directory.  At least it's supposed to, and as far as I know it does.)

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