tar

Description:Use this to make tarballs :)
License: GPL-3+
Homepage:https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Location:Portage
Legend:
  • + - stable
  • ~ - unstable
  • M - hardmask
alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
1.35 diff ~ + ~ + ~ ~ ~ ~ + ~ - + ~
1.34-r3 diff ~ + + + ~ ~ ~ + + ~ - + +
1.34-r2 ~ + + + ~ ~ ~ + + ~ - + +

USE flags

  • acl - Add support for Access Control Lists
  • minimal - just install `tar`
  • nls - Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
  • selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
  • verify-sig - Verify upstream signatures on distfiles
  • xattr - Add support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata)

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
almost 3 years low Tar: Denial of service
about 5 years normal Tar: Denial of Service
over 7 years normal Tar: Extract pathname bypass
over 12 years normal GNU Tar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
over 16 years normal GNU Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
over 17 years normal Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
about 18 years normal GNU tar: Buffer overflow

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