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Skip members whose names contain "..".

Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6321

Upstream patch:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=7340f67b9860ea0531c1450e5aa261c50f671

(From OE-Core rev: cfa2b5facd1aa6a2bac4cb04687e1a977c533934)

Signed-off-by: Sona Sarmadi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
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66 changes: 66 additions & 0 deletions meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar/CVE-2016-6321.patch
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From 7340f67b9860ea0531c1450e5aa261c50f67165d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:04:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] When extracting, skip ".." members

* NEWS: Document this.
* src/extract.c (extract_archive): Skip members whose names
contain "..".

CVE: CVE-2016-6321
Upstream-Status: Backport

Cherry picked from commit: 7340f67 When extracting, skip ".." members

Signed-off-by: Sona Sarmadi <[email protected]>
---
NEWS | 8 +++++++-
src/extract.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 501164a..fc97cfc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2016-05-16
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2016-10-29
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>

+* Member names containing '..' components are now skipped when extracting.
+
+This fixes tar's behavior to match its documentation, and is a bit
+safer when extracting untrusted archives over old files (an unsafe
+practice that the tar manual has long recommended against).
+

version 1.29 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2016-05-16

diff --git a/src/extract.c b/src/extract.c
index f982433..7904148 100644
--- a/src/extract.c
+++ b/src/extract.c
@@ -1629,12 +1629,20 @@ extract_archive (void)
{
char typeflag;
tar_extractor_t fun;
+ bool skip_dotdot_name;

fatal_exit_hook = extract_finish;

set_next_block_after (current_header);

+ skip_dotdot_name = (!absolute_names_option
+ && contains_dot_dot (current_stat_info.orig_file_name));
+ if (skip_dotdot_name)
+ ERROR ((0, 0, _("%s: Member name contains '..'"),
+ quotearg_colon (current_stat_info.orig_file_name)));
+
if (!current_stat_info.file_name[0]
+ || skip_dotdot_name
|| (interactive_option
&& !confirm ("extract", current_stat_info.file_name)))
{
--
1.9.1

1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.29.bb
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"

SRC_URI += "file://remove-gets.patch \
file://musl_dirent.patch \
file://CVE-2016-6321.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "955cd533955acb1804b83fd70218da51"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "236b11190c0a3a6885bdb8d61424f2b36a5872869aa3f7f695dea4b4843ae2f2"
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