>Number:         7886
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       tar dumps core
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer (NetBSD/sparc Portmaster)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 30 21:35:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jon Buller
>Organization:
	
>Release:        19990620 snapshot
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD bullball.heeia.hi.us 1.4C NetBSD 1.4C (BULLBALL) #2: Fri Jun 18 23:30:28 PDT 1999 jonb@bullball.heeia.hi.us:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/BULLBALL sparc


>Description:
	tar zxf /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/control-center-1.0.5.tar.gz

Core was generated by `tar'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x4afb0 in memcpy ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x4afb0 in memcpy ()
#1  0x1a584 in read_header () at /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/list.c:403
#2  0x19fcc in read_and (do_something=0x15538 <extract_archive>)
    at /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/list.c:101
#3  0x22e34 in main (argc=448512, argv=0xeffff6ec)
    at /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.c:254
#4  0x10218 in __start ()

>How-To-Repeat:
	control-center-1.0.5.tar.gz is the only tar file I've found to
	cause this, although the compression has no effect.
>Fix:
	None yet.  I figure others can figure it out quicker than I can,
	but I'll be looking at it anyway...
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: