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| Name: libtar | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 1.2.20 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 3.2 | Build date: Sun Jun 21 18:45:25 2026 |
| Group: Unspecified | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 30422 | Source RPM: libtar-1.2.20-3.2.src.rpm |
| Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: http://www.feep.net/libtar/ | |
| Summary: Tar file manipulation API | |
libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files. It handles adding and extracting files to/from a tar archive.
BSD-3-Clause
* Sun Jun 21 2026 Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
- Add upstream-pending security fixes (backported via Fedora):
* libtar-1.2.20-CVE-2021-33643-CVE-2021-33644.patch: fix
out-of-bounds read in gnu_long{name,link}
(CVE-2021-33643, boo#1202316; CVE-2021-33644, boo#1202317)
* libtar-1.2.20-CVE-2021-33645-CVE-2021-33646.patch: free memory
allocated by the gnu_long{name,link} fields, fixing the memory
leaks (CVE-2021-33645, boo#1202319; CVE-2021-33646, boo#1202320)
without re-introducing the use-after-free that an incorrect leak
fix otherwise causes (CVE-2021-33640, boo#1206547)
- Modernize spec: drop RPM groups, use pkgconfig(zlib) and
%ldconfig_scriptlets
* Fri Apr 13 2018 mpluskal@suse.com
- Small packaging cleanup
* Thu Apr 20 2017 jengelh@inai.de
- Rectify RPM groups.
* Thu Jan 07 2016 mpluskal@suse.com
- Cleanup spec file with spec-cleaner
- Do not ship .la files
- Update licensing information
* Sat Jan 02 2016 freitag@opensuse.org
- Fix patch notification in spec file and changes.
* Fri Dec 25 2015 freitag@opensuse.org
- Update to upstream version 1.2.20
- Adopted Fedoras patchset for this package
- Drop libtar_1.2.11-6.diff.gz: Made it to upstream code.
- Drop libtar-1.2.11-tar_header.patch: Made it to upstream code.
- Add libtar-1.2.11-bz729009.patch: do not strip on install
- Add libtar-1.2.11-missing-protos.patch: adding missing headers
- Add libtar-1.2.11-mem-deref.patch: two crash avoiding fixes
- Add libtar-1.2.20-fix-resource-leaks.patch: fix resource leaks
- Add libtar-1.2.20-no-static-buffer.patch: do not use a static buffer as return value
* Sat Jan 05 2013 joop.boonen@opensuse.org
- Fixed SLE, Mandriva and Fedora build
- Cleaned the spec file up
* Fri Jun 04 2010 joop.boonen@opensuse.org
- build patch version libtar 1.2.11-6
- Using the fedora project buffer overflowpatch
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc//devel/libtar/
* Sun Mar 15 2009 lars@linux-schulserver.de
- build for openSUSE-Education (stopmotion needs it)
- fix rpmlint warnings
- split out libtar1
* Fri Dec 12 2008 coyoteuser@gmail.com
- Hacked for libtool => 2.2.6
- Initial build for openSUSE build service
/usr/bin/libtar /usr/share/doc/packages/libtar /usr/share/doc/packages/libtar/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/libtar/ChangeLog-1.0.x /usr/share/doc/packages/libtar/README /usr/share/doc/packages/libtar/TODO /usr/share/licenses/libtar /usr/share/licenses/libtar/COPYRIGHT
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