[Bug-tar] Re: GNU tar 1.24+ segfaults on Solaris 10U9 x86

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Sebastian Kayser <address@hidden> wrote:
> we are packaging GNU tar for Solaris and since tar 1.24 we've been
> seeing segfaults when extracting archives (testing and creating archives
> works fine). It doesn't seem to be specific to a single archive. Even an
> archive created with GNU tar itself causes a segfault. It seems to be
> specific to
> 
> * the architecture:    x86   (SPARC is fine)
> * the tar version:     1.24+ (pre 1.24 is fine)
> * the Solaris release: 10U9  (pre 10U9 is fine)

Correction: the issue also occurs on SPARC, so it's down to

* Solaris 10U9
* tar 1.24+

Sebastian