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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-07-15 12:30:33 (GMT)
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[3.9] bpo-39017: Avoid infinite loop in the tarfile module (GH-21454) (GH-21482)
Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907). (cherry picked from commit 5a8d121a1f3ef5ad7c105ee378cc79a3eac0c7d4) Co-authored-by: Rishi <rishi_devan@mail.com> Automerge-Triggered-By: @encukou
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+Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907).