vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2019-20907)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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