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3 Sep
2024
3 Sep
'24
7:30 a.m.
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: