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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-02-08 06:17:21 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-02-08 06:17:21 (GMT)
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Issue #6972: keep the warning about untrusted extraction and mention
the version it was improved in.
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@@ -260,8 +260,12 @@ ZipFile Objects
be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`namelist`. *pwd* is the password
used for encrypted files.
- .. note::
+ .. warning::
+ Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection.
+ It is possible that files are created outside of *path*, e.g. members
+ that have absolute filenames starting with ``"/"`` or filenames with two
+ dots ``".."``. This module attempts to prevent that.
See :meth:`extract` note.