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Bug 4208 - cpio infinite loop; cpio as root incorrectly sets file permissions
Summary: cpio infinite loop; cpio as root incorrectly sets file permissions
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: cpio
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: bero
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Reported: 1999-07-27 00:44 UTC by bugzilla
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-31 17:22:03 UTC
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Description bugzilla 1999-07-27 00:44:24 UTC 
GNU cpio 2.4.2 has a long-standing bug in it that
causes infinite loops when unpacking input files
with hard-linked empty files.

It also has a security problem in that it sets the
permissions on symlink targets instead of symlinks
when there is no lchown() system call.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-31 17:22:59 UTC 
Fixed in cpio-2.4.2-13. Thanks for the patch.
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