There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
Aug 22, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Sep 5, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Aug 22, 2024
Last updated
Sep 5, 2024
There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the CPython "zipfile"
module.
When iterating over names of entries in a zip archive (for example, methods
of "zipfile.ZipFile" like "namelist()", "iterdir()", "extractall()", etc)
the process can be put into an infinite loop with a maliciously crafted
zip archive. This defect applies when reading only metadata or extracting
the contents of the zip archive. Programs that are not handling
user-controlled zip archives are not affected.
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