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Description of problem: One of our customer found that On RHEL8, when running gzip --list on a large compressed file (multi-GB), it misinterprets the uncompressed filesize: On RHEL8, when running gzip --list on a large compressed file (multi-GB), it misinterprets the uncompressed filesize: ~~~ $ gzip --list rhel9.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 8262683410 4279486464 -93.1% rhel9.tar $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa) ~~~ The same command on RHEL9 works fine: ~~~ gzip --list rhel9.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 8262683410 8574453760 3.6% rhel9.tar cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.1 (Plow) ~~~ Customer has listed this was fixed in the upstream gzip in this commit and want this to be implemented in RHEL 8: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=cf26200380585019e927fe3cf5c0ecb7c8b3ef14 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gzip-1.9-13.el8_5.x86_64 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. REAL file ~~~ ls -la rhel8.tar rw-rr-. 1 root root 11465134080 Feb 3 05:35 rhel8.tar ~~~ 2. RHEL 8 GZIP latest version - gzip-1.9-13.el8_5.x86_64 ~~~ gzip --list rhel8.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 11024697867 2875199488 -283.4% rhel8.tar ~~~ 3. RHEL 9 GZIP latest version - gzip-1.12-1.el9.x86_64 ~~~ gzip --list rhel8.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 11024697867 11465134080 3.8% rhel8.tar ~~~ Actual results: The uncompressed size show is much smaller causing a negative compression ratio. Users cannot rely on the information provided by the utility and have to develop workarounds Expected results: Should display correct uncompressed file size. Additional info:

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