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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-06-26 10:54:06 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-06-26 10:54:06 +0000
commit3adffb7fc86ece4a9c8f550abf049a459f1ea1f6 (patch)
tree7cf083d19187362f06120705328ce2fa56b8a36f
parent10dc9d4d17e6880bfdfd253716ce72ec1243227f (diff)
readlink(2) does not NULL terminate the buffer it reads in, but tar expected it
to do so. This caused symlinks stored in tarballs to likely have trailing crap in the stored symlink named. Oops. -Erik
-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c5
-rw-r--r--tar.c5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 1b783f0f5..836d127e7 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -824,12 +824,15 @@ writeTarHeader(struct TarBallInfo *tbInfo, const char *fileName, struct stat *st
/* WARNING/NOTICE: I break Hard Links */
if (S_ISLNK(statbuf->st_mode)) {
+ int link_size=0;
char buffer[BUFSIZ];
header.typeflag = SYMTYPE;
- if ( readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) < 0) {
+ link_size = readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1);
+ if ( link_size < 0) {
errorMsg("Error reading symlink '%s': %s\n", header.name, strerror(errno));
return ( FALSE);
}
+ buffer[link_size] = '\0';
strncpy(header.linkname, buffer, sizeof(header.linkname));
} else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf->st_mode)) {
header.typeflag = DIRTYPE;
diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c
index 1b783f0f5..836d127e7 100644
--- a/tar.c
+++ b/tar.c
@@ -824,12 +824,15 @@ writeTarHeader(struct TarBallInfo *tbInfo, const char *fileName, struct stat *st
/* WARNING/NOTICE: I break Hard Links */
if (S_ISLNK(statbuf->st_mode)) {
+ int link_size=0;
char buffer[BUFSIZ];
header.typeflag = SYMTYPE;
- if ( readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) < 0) {
+ link_size = readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1);
+ if ( link_size < 0) {
errorMsg("Error reading symlink '%s': %s\n", header.name, strerror(errno));
return ( FALSE);
}
+ buffer[link_size] = '\0';
strncpy(header.linkname, buffer, sizeof(header.linkname));
} else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf->st_mode)) {
header.typeflag = DIRTYPE;