Package tar: Information
Source package: tar
Version: 1.20-alt1.M41.1
Build time: Nov 17, 2011, 02:49 PM
Category: Archiving/Backup
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License: GPLv3+
Summary: A GNU file archiving program
Description:
The GNU tar program saves many files together into one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from the archive. tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives and the ability to perform incremental and full backups.
Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin
Last changed
Nov. 17, 2011 Aitov Timur 1.20-alt1.M41.1
- fixed CVE-2010-0624
April 17, 2008 Alexey Gladkov 1.20-alt1
- Updated to 1.20.
Aug. 30, 2007 Dmitry V. Levin 1.18-alt3
- Use fchown/fchmod instead of chown/chmod to set permissions of just created regular files. - Use gl_futimens instead of utimens to set timestamps of just created regular files. - Use lstat instead of stat in extract mode to avoid directory traversal attack when extracting into untrusted directory.