[jira] [Created] (COMPRESS-356) PAX header entry name ending with / causes problems

["Jeremy Gustie (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jeremy Gustie created COMPRESS-356:
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             Summary: PAX header entry name ending with / causes problems
                 Key: COMPRESS-356
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-356
             Project: Commons Compress
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Archivers
    Affects Versions: 1.11
            Reporter: Jeremy Gustie


There seems to be a problem when a PAX header entry (link flag is 'x') has a name ending with "/". The {{TarArchiveEntry.isDirectory()}} check ends up returning {{true}} because of the trailing slash which means no content can be read from the entry. PAX header parsing effectively finds nothing and the stream is not advanced; this leaves the stream in a bad state as the next entry's header is actually read from the header contents.

If the name is modified to remove the trailing slash when the link flag indicates a PAX header everything seems to work fine. That would be one potential fix in {{parseTarHeader}}. Changing {{isDirectory}} to return {{false}} if {{isPaxHeader}} is {{true}} (before the trailing "/" check) would probably also fix the issue (though I can't verify that in the debugger like I can with changing the name).

So far I have only seen this when using Docker to save images that contain a yum database. For example:
{noformat}
docker pull centos:latest && docker save centos:latest | tar x --include "*/layer.tar"
{noformat}
Will produce at least one "layer.tar" that exhibits this issue. If I come across a smaller TAR for testing I will attach it.



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