And if you’re somehow getting inaccurate data… How?
I’m not sure how I could get inaccurate data. I have a rooted android and de-bloated to a maximum. Strangely enough PCAPdroid only works without a VPN connection… And those requests appear when I open the AdguardVPN app.
Other apps like Firefox doesn’t send that much DNS requests just the usual ingest.sentry.io.
my apologies for the long screenshot. i had purchased adguard’s vpn service for five years since its primary adguard service is well know in the iapple ecosystem....
Hey I gave it a second try with another tool: PCAPdroid and I’m not sure what I’m looking at … Adguard VPN seems effectively to send a lot of traffic to strange DNS requests…
Just by opening the app and loggin in a fake account I got over 200 requests…
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Yeah but that doesn’t answer my question: What’s the implication of ./ in the tar file? I mean when I extract them, both seem similar but most people say it’s bad practice or not recommended but why?
I know and do understand how to achieve both with and without the root folder.
Thank you, I think this is a good lead, but couldn’t find a lot of information about it. But the general gist is that it could overwrite my folder structure and mess up the filesystem (source). All sources I found are very old, does that mean that there’s some kind of protection today?
I also found out that it will extract the permission and owner to the current directory :/ so this a very odd behavior… (source).
Thank you for testing it out and give some nice insights on how to improve the command. Just curious what’s about the parenthesis (sudo cd ./testar && sudo find . -maxdepth 1 -type d,f)? I have never seen a command structured like that !
Regarding my question, someone lead me to the right direction. This could overwrite my actual folder structure (tarbomb) depending on where it’s extracted and the absolute path in the tar. It will also extract the permission and ownership to the current directory… source
Thank you ! Your edit is related to what’s called a tarbomb. I also found out that it will overwrite the owner and permission to the current directory… Very odd behavior ! source
<span style="color:#323232;">I noticed that you are also getting duplicates in your output 2 tar file, because you are feeding it the folder, and then the folder contents.
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Haha, that was only an example xD to get context. My english is not that good, so I have to somehow show what I mean.
Hey :) Thanks for your input but after some insight from other users I actually found out it could overwrite my folder structure (tarbomb) and also overwrite the permission/owner to the current directory (see my edited post for source). My example is probably really bad because it doesn’t contain any absolute path, but the permission/owner change still holds in the current directory.
Haha, thank you xD I think I wouldn’t lose my sleep over it, except if I tarbomb my server !! My question was probably baddly written, but this kind of structure could actually be dangerous !
You’re right :) In my current example it’s probably “harmless” if extracted properly in a separated folder. Maybe I do not understand how it works (please educate me :)) but if my tar contains the following folder./home/user/ and I extract it in my current home folder (which would be kinda stupid but It happens) this will overwrite the home folder (which is the principle of a tarbomb? mess up and overwrite directories?).
A related problem is the use of absolute paths or parent directory references when creating tar files. Files extracted from such archives will often be created in unusual locations outside the working directory and, like a tarbomb, have the potential to overwrite existing files. However, modern versions of FreeBSD and GNU tar do not create or extract absolute paths and parent-directory references by default, unless it is explicitly allowed with the flag -P or the option --absolute-names. source
There’s still another odd behavior with ./ ! When extracted it will overwrite the permission/owner to the current directory source
Thank you very much for the clarification ! That’s exactly the kind of input I was looking for ! I tried it out and your absolutely right ! I will edit my post.
Thanks after a long sleep I edited my post to avoid misinformation and errors due of my lacked knowledge ! Thanks for your time and clarifications on that specific point !
Thanks ! I changed that specific point my command looks way cleaner now ! But I still use the find command to extract the names with -printf “%Pn” to tar only the files without the parent folder and ././files. I prefere it that way, it looks cleaner. But -type d,f is useless !
use find to export the list, and then check it before you let tar run on that output
This seems a more secure way of doing things. Do you have any personal experience with piped tar commands that back slashed and put your system at risk?
Edit: I just found an easier way… (cd testar/ && tar -czvf …/mydir.tgz {*,.*}) Which includes hidden files without parent folder and ./ !
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[SOLVED] Tar: what's the implication of the ./ and ./file structure in the tar file?
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