Symlinks are transformed as well, which leads into broken symlinks.

[waja]

Adding the correct transformation scope flags here.

https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_51.html mentions a way to fix this:

In addition, several transformation scope flags are supported, that control to what files transformations apply. These are:

[...]

`S'
Do not apply transformation to symbolic link targets.

[waja]

You can compare https://github.com/waja/maldetect/runs/1370635825?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:1287 against https://github.com/waja/maldetect/runs/1371011875?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:1287, which has the fix in use.

[dawidd6]

Thanks