Security-announce

Download

security-announce@python.org

September 2024

1 participants
1 discussions

[CVE-2024-6232] Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
by Seth Larson Sept. 3, 2024

Sept. 3, 2024

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. Please see the linked CVE ID for the latest information on affected versions: * https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6232 * https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286

1 0