From f1319d81f71512b464336c778089a5fe168fef93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 22:15:04 -0800 Subject: Issue #6972: keep the warning about untrusted extraction and mention the version it was improved in. --- Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index d210720..d82ab06 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -232,9 +232,15 @@ 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 ``".."``. - See :meth:`extract` note. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2.4 + The zipfile module attempts to prevent that. See :meth:`extract` note. .. method:: ZipFile.printdir() -- cgit v0.12