On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

> 	i've prepared new GNU tar under gnu/usr.bin/tar.new (and gnu/dist/tar),
> 	with security fixes in place, and plan to switch to tar.new (either

Also, look at
http://msgs.SecurePoint.com/cgi-bin/get/bugtraq0209/235.html
http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200210/0139.html

I'll also look at these with your other patches too.

Thank you.

> pax problem is being handled separately, and we need to secure GNU tar in

Thanks you again.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/