Bug#521613: perl-modules: Archive::Tar doesn't detect some bad tar files

[Niko Tyni]

tag 521613 upstream patch
forwarded 521613 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44680
thanks

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: perl-modules
> Version: 5.10.0-19
> Severity: important
> 
> [Severity set to important because of possible data loss due to
> incorrect integrity checking.]

That's stretching it a bit IMO...

> The following script (named tar-test below), that outputs file names
> from tar files, doesn't detect some bad tar files.

I sent the attached patch upstream, waiting for comments now.

Thanks for your report,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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