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Re: Crash on malformed archive


From: Christian Schoenebeck
Subject: Re: Crash on malformed archive
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:55:46 +0200

On Thursday, October 27, 2022 10:29:57 PM CEST Paul Eggert wrote:
> > The reproducer is attached, and you may want to remove the checksum check
> > from tar to reproduce the crash locally.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know what is meant by "remove the checksum check". I
> didn't do that, whatever it is.

I think he means bypassing the tar_checksum() [src/list.c] check. You know, 
generating random data with a fuzzer and waiting for an entry checksum to be 
correct? :)

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck





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