Re: CVE Request: BusyBox tar directory traversal

[Jeremy Stanley <fungi () yuggoth org>]

On 2015-10-23 14:24:41 +0200 (+0200), Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac () debian org> wrote:
> On ven., 2015-10-23 at 03:01 -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > Remember that tar was created primarily for software distribution
>
> Actually no, it was created to write archives to (magnetic) tapes.
[...]

Stop, you're both right!

The first tar shipped in V7 UNIX as an improved replacement for the
tp utility. Take a guess what archive format AT&T used on the PDP-11
install tapes for V7 (ignoring the self-executing stub they
prepended, of course).
-- 
Jeremy Stanley