[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM_BIN_TYPE get wrong length if HEADERIMPORT_FAST is used (#398)

[Jeff Johnson]

(from memory)
I think I fixed this problem 4-5 years ago in RPM5 (like rpm-5.4.15? I forget).

The MD5 tag length (and RPM_BIN_TYPE in general) includes padding (if present) to the next tag.

The bug only shows up if the next tag needs to be aligned.

The real fix wasn't hard, but was rather subtle and surprising.

The proposed fix special casing the MD5 tag is deficient because it ignores legacy compatibility: nearly all versions of rpm this century are affected.

Mark Hatle (from Poky/Yocto) likely can supply the actual patch I checked into RPM5. I was somewhat surprised at the time that the bug had never been reported against RPM4 with identical code.

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