1 A less complete version of this patch was fed back to the upstream community:

     2 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=285

     3 This more complete patch was committed instead.  It should no longer be

     4 needed with the next release.

     5 

     6 --- libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c.orig	Mon Mar 26 19:49:00 2012

     7 +++ libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c	Sun Dec  2 04:03:38 2012

     8 @@ -647,8 +647,10 @@ archive_write_pax_header(struct archive_write *a,

     9 		oname = archive_entry_pathname(entry_original);

    10 		name_length = strlen(oname);

    11 		name = malloc(name_length + 3);

    12 -		if (name == NULL) {

    13 +		if (name == NULL || extra == NULL) {

    14 			/* XXX error message */

    15 +			archive_entry_free(extra);

    16 +			free(name);

    17 			return (ARCHIVE_FAILED);

    18 		}

    19 		strcpy(name, oname);

    20 @@ -687,6 +689,7 @@ archive_write_pax_header(struct archive_write *a,

    21 

    22 		/* Recurse to write the special copyfile entry. */

    23 		r = archive_write_pax_header(a, extra);

    24 +		archive_entry_free(extra);

    25 		if (r < ARCHIVE_WARN)

    26 			return (r);

    27 		if (r < ret)