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Description
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Credits
- Elias Joakim Myllymäki reporter
- Seth Larson coordinator
- Seth Larson remediation developer
- Gregory P. Smith remediation reviewer
References 10 Total
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286 patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285 issue-tracking
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/ vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06 patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4 patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373 patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877 patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4 patch
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