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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 13, 2020· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2019-20907

CVE-2019-20907

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.

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