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Asked: 2024-05-24 00:45:24 +0800 CST

zip in ubuntu 24.04 getting buffer overflow if right single quote mark present

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Using the zip command, I am sometimes getting the following error:
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Some file names in the material being backed up contain sight single quotation marks, (ascii code E2 80 99). This is only a problem when using zip on ubuntu 24.04. It works on ubuntu 22.04.

24.04

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  1. Best Answer

    As a work-around

    1. Obtain an earlier version of zip. In my case, I took /usr/bin/zip from a Ubuntu 22.04
    2. Set aside /usr/bin/zip, perhaps as /usr/bin/zip24
    3. Put the older version of zip somewhere, in my case I placed it in /usr/local/bin/zip
    4. Make a symbolic link at /usr/bin/zip pointing to the older version.
      In my case the command (run from directory /usr/bin) was
      ls -s /usr/local/bin/zip zip

    Using this older version I generated a zip file which, unzipped on 24.04 compared exactly with the original material - in short it works.

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