Package: busybox Version: 1:1.22.0-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
The zcat applet seems to behave like cat unless the input file has a .gz suffix: Given two identical files (compressed string "Hello World"), one with a .gz suffix and one without: $ file test test.gz test: gzip compressed data, was "test", from Unix, last modified: Mon Jan 27 20:31:45 2014 test.gz: gzip compressed data, was "test", from Unix, last modified: Mon Jan 27 20:31:45 2014 $ md5sum test test.gz 9001811fcfd18c9479e98f78ebfd364b test 9001811fcfd18c9479e98f78ebfd364b test.gz Regular zcat behaves as expected: $ zcat test | file - /dev/stdin: ASCII text $ zcat test.gz | file - /dev/stdin: ASCII text But busybox zcat does not: $ busybox zcat test | file - /dev/stdin: gzip compressed data, was "test", from Unix, last modified: Mon Jan 27 20:31:45 2014 $ busybox zcat test.gz | file - /dev/stdin: ASCII text If the input file does not have a .gz suffix then zcat is behaving like plain cat: $ cat test | md5sum 9001811fcfd18c9479e98f78ebfd364b - $ busybox zcat test | md5sum 9001811fcfd18c9479e98f78ebfd364b - It works correctly when operating on stdin: $ cat test | busybox zcat | file - /dev/stdin: ASCII text I've given this severity critical since it break the installer by breaking at least net-retriever. The version currently in Jessie (1:1.21.0-1) seems to be OK: $ busybox zcat test | file - /dev/stdin: ASCII text -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages busybox depends on: ii libc6 2.17-92+b1 busybox recommends no packages. busybox suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
