AW: OpenSSL version 1.1.1b published

Thomas J. Hruska shinelight at shininglightpro.com
Wed Feb 27 06:07:53 UTC 2019


On 2/26/2019 10:05 PM, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>> Unlike previous releases, this tar-gzipped file contains a 52 byte file
>> called 'pax_global_header'.  The contents of the file contain a single
>> line of text:
>>
>> 52 comment=50eaac9f3337667259de725451f201e784599687
> 
> my extracted tarball does not contain this file. This seems to be a bug of the tar command which was fixed in 1.14.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111909182607985&w=2
> 
> HTH,
> Matthias

Okay.  Certain versions of 7-Zip seem to be affected.  Just a FYI in 
case anyone else brings it up on the list.

It's minor and didn't affect the extraction in any way other than being 
an extra file.

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