CVE-2024-6232 Information

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.

Reference

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/ https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373