diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da2ae3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/avoid_heap_overflow.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [bugfix: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0624]
+
+This patch avoids heap overflow reported by :
+http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0624
+
+This is a clean patch for the GPLv2 tar recipe.
+
+Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> 2011/04/25
+
+Index: tar-1.17/lib/rtapelib.c
+===================================================================
+--- tar-1.17.orig/lib/rtapelib.c
++++ tar-1.17/lib/rtapelib.c
+@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ rmt_read__ (int handle, char *buffer, si
+ 
+   sprintf (command_buffer, "R%lu\n", (unsigned long) length);
+   if (do_command (handle, command_buffer) == -1
+-      || (status = get_status (handle)) == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
++      || ((status = get_status (handle)) == SAFE_READ_ERROR) || (status > length))
+     return SAFE_READ_ERROR;
+ 
+   for (counter = 0; counter < status; counter += rlen, buffer += rlen)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/gcc43build.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/gcc43build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8059a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/gcc43build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [licensing]
+
+# Fix errors when built with gcc 4.3
+# Patch taken from Debian bug #452096
+
+diff -urN tar-1.17.orig/lib/argp-fmtstream.h tar-1.17/lib/argp-fmtstream.h
+--- tar-1.17.orig/lib/argp-fmtstream.h	2006-01-11 12:24:05.000000000 -0800
++++ tar-1.17/lib/argp-fmtstream.h	2010-07-22 22:36:12.000000000 -0700
+@@ -198,7 +198,11 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ #ifndef ARGP_FS_EI
+-#define ARGP_FS_EI extern inline
++ #if defined __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__
++   #define ARGP_FS_EI extern inline __attribute__((__gnu_inline__))
++ #else
++   #define ARGP_FS_EI extern inline
++ #endif
+ #endif
+ 
+ ARGP_FS_EI size_t
+diff -urN tar-1.17.orig/lib/argp.h tar-1.17/lib/argp.h
+--- tar-1.17.orig/lib/argp.h	2007-03-30 00:09:11.000000000 -0700
++++ tar-1.17/lib/argp.h	2010-07-22 22:38:44.000000000 -0700
+@@ -580,7 +580,11 @@
+ # endif
+ 
+ # ifndef ARGP_EI
+-#  define ARGP_EI extern __inline__
++#  if defined __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__
++#    define ARGP_EI extern __inline__ __attribute__((__gnu_inline__))
++#  else
++#    define ARGP_EI extern __inline__
++#  endif
+ # endif
+ 
+ ARGP_EI void
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/m4extensions.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/m4extensions.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30534c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.17/m4extensions.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [licensing]
+
+# Define AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS only if it was previously undefined.
+# This is needed to configure correctly with newer versions of autoconf.
+
+--- tar-1.17/m4/extensions.m4.orig	2010-07-22 22:21:35.000000000 -0700
++++ tar-1.17/m4/extensions.m4	2010-07-22 22:23:41.000000000 -0700
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-# serial 4  -*- Autoconf -*-
++# serial 5  -*- Autoconf -*-
+ # Enable extensions on systems that normally disable them.
+ 
+ # Copyright (C) 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
+ # ------------------------
+ # Enable extensions on systems that normally disable them,
+ # typically due to standards-conformance issues.
++m4_ifdef([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS], [], [
+ AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS],
+ [
+   AC_BEFORE([$0], [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE])
+@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@
+     AC_DEFINE([__EXTENSIONS__])
+   AC_DEFINE([_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS])
+   AC_DEFINE([_TANDEM_SOURCE])
+-])
++])])
+ 
+ # gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+ # ------------------------
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b339c43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+SUMMARY = "GNU file archiving program"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape \
+or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/tar/tar-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "DEFAULT_RMT_DIR=${base_sbindir}"
+
+# Let aclocal use the relative path for the m4 file rather than the
+# absolute since tar has a lot of m4 files, otherwise there might
+# be an "Argument list too long" error when it is built in a long/deep
+# directory.
+acpaths = "-I ./m4"
+
+do_install () {
+    autotools_do_install
+    ln -s tar ${D}${bindir}/gtar
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-target() {
+    install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
+    mv ${D}${bindir}/tar ${D}${base_bindir}/tar
+    mv ${D}${bindir}/gtar ${D}${base_bindir}/gtar
+    rmdir ${D}${bindir}/
+}
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rmt"
+
+FILES_${PN}-rmt = "${base_sbindir}/rmt*"
+
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "tar"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt_class-nativesdk = ""
+
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tar] = "${base_bindir}/tar"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rmt] = "${base_sbindir}/rmt"
+
+PROVIDES_append_class-native = " tar-replacement-native"
+NATIVE_PACKAGE_PATH_SUFFIX = "/${PN}"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar/remove-gets.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar/remove-gets.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b8be39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar/remove-gets.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+ISO C11 removes the specification of gets() from the C language, eglibc 2.16+ removed it
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+Index: tar-1.27/gnu/stdio.in.h
+===================================================================
+--- tar-1.27.orig/gnu/stdio.in.h	2013-06-29 08:54:26.000000000 +0300
++++ tar-1.27/gnu/stdio.in.h	2013-10-16 15:22:46.977204737 +0300
+@@ -710,10 +710,12 @@
+ /* It is very rare that the developer ever has full control of stdin,
+    so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning; besides, C11
+    removed it.  */
++#if defined gets
+ #undef gets
+ #if HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETS
+ _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
+ #endif
++#endif
+ 
+ 
+ #if @GNULIB_OBSTACK_PRINTF@ || @GNULIB_OBSTACK_PRINTF_POSIX@
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9ca206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.17.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require tar.inc
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
+
+PR = "r3"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://m4extensions.patch \
+    file://gcc43build.patch \
+    file://avoid_heap_overflow.patch \
+    "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c6c4f1c075dbf0f75c29737faa58f290"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "19f9021dda51a16295e4706e80870e71f87107675e51c176a491eba0fc4ca492"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.28.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.28.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8816000
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.28.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+require tar.inc
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--with-posix-acls, --without-posix-acls, acl,"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://remove-gets.patch \
+           "
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8f32b2bc1ed7ddf4cf4e4a39711341b0"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "60e4bfe0602fef34cd908d91cf638e17eeb09394d7b98c2487217dc4d3147562"