vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-20907: pypy3, python2.7, python3.9 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2020
Added
Aug 24, 2020
Modified
Aug 15, 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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-pypy3debian-upgrade-python2-7debian-upgrade-python3-9
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