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authorRishi <rishi_devan@mail.com>2020-07-15 11:51:00 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-07-15 11:51:00 (GMT)
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bpo-39017: Avoid infinite loop in the tarfile module (GH-21454)
Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907).
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diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
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--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1249,6 +1249,8 @@ class TarInfo(object):
length, keyword = match.groups()
length = int(length)
+ if length == 0:
+ raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
value = buf[match.end(2) + 1:match.start(1) + length - 1]
# Normally, we could just use "utf-8" as the encoding and "strict"