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Cute, I found a similar issue in OpenBSD's tar as mentioned, I didn't share the exploit before but basically a long filename does it.

Something like: https://gist.github.com/dgl/355840320535bf8ef8b70f2e0722bf65

(I reported this one to OpenBSD but they didn't fix it. Much like Busybox, which has been known for years.)

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Interesting that they didn't fix it.

I emailed the Tar maintainers privately because I thought they might consider it a security vulnerability, however mild. They fixed it promptly but didn't want to make a CVE fuss out of it.

Actually, I got it wrong, too many vulnerabilities in flight. They did fix it: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/375ccafb2eb77de6cf240e...

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