Vulnerability CVE-2024-6232
Published: 2024-09-03

Description:
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.

 References:
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
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