Neville Bagnall added the comment:
Lars, for information. I'm closing as 2.4 isn't being maintained I
presume, and while I believe it also affects 2.5, I don't think its a
security issue, just data loss
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nosy: +lars.gustaebel
status: open -> closed
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New submission from Neville Bagnall :
When tarinfo.name is exactly 100 characters long, the last character is
truncated in the tarfile
Attached patch contains the extremely simple fix.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: tarfile.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 86759
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