[Bug 1830629] Re: Errors when extracting ZIP files. It can not differentiate between files and directories

[Brian Murray]

Hello Alejandro, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libarchive into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.4 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to libarchive in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830629

Title:
  Errors when extracting ZIP files. It can not differentiate between
  files and directories

Status in libarchive package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libarchive source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * Impact
  The bionic version has a known problem when reading file entries in ZIP files, where it incorrectly identifies directories and files entries.

  * Test case
  $ wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1830629/+attachment/5268728/+files/example.zip
  $ bsdtar -vxf example.zip
  $ ls -l

  The 'ABCD_1234' and 'empty' entries should be directories

  * Regression potential
  Check that extracting zips from bsdtar or nautilus work without issue

  --------------------------------

  It has been confirmed that the previous and following versions
  (3.3.1+) do not have this problem and the library handles the ZIP
  files correctly.

  Is it possible to include a newer version of libarchive (3.3.1+) in
  Bionic?

  This problem is seriously affecting some of our systems.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1830629/+subscriptions