diff --git a/lfs/tar b/lfs/tar
index cbab6c2a9..953613d51 100644
--- a/lfs/tar
+++ b/lfs/tar
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 include Config
 
-VER        = 1.30
+VER        = 1.31
 
 THISAPP    = tar-$(VER)
 DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.bz2
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
 
 $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
 
-$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = 8404e4c1fc5a3000228ab2b8ad674a65
+$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = 77afa35b696c8d760331fa0e12c2fac9
 
 install : $(TARGET)
 
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ $(subst %,%_MD5,$(objects)) :
 $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
 	@$(PREBUILD)
 	@rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar jxf $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
+
+	cd $(DIR_APP) && patch -Np1 -i $(DIR_SRC)/src/patches/tar/01_extract.c.patch
+
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && ./configure $(EXTRA_CONFIG) FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKETUNING)
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && make install
diff --git a/src/patches/tar/01_extract.c.patch b/src/patches/tar/01_extract.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..21c3cd86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/patches/tar/01_extract.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- tar-1.31/src/extract.c	2019-01-02 18:07:48.000000000 +0000
++++ tar-1.31.patched/src/extract.c	2019-01-09 16:17:20.368612005 +0000
+@@ -782,7 +782,8 @@
+ 	case OVERWRITE_OLD_FILES:
+ 	  if (0 < remove_any_file (file_name, ORDINARY_REMOVE_OPTION))
+ 	    return RECOVER_OK;
+-	  break;
++	  errno = e;
++	  return RECOVER_NO;
+ 
+ 	case UNLINK_FIRST_OLD_FILES:
+ 	  break;