On Thursday 03 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
I am worried about extracting TAR files...(1) What if it contains
files with absolute paths?
(2) What if it contains files with ".." inA system back up (e.g. tar on /) will contain such files esp. in /etc.
the path?
(3) What if it violates the Unix convention of extractingThen you have a compromised version of tar. This could happen with any
the contents in a sub-directory?