bpo-39017: Avoid infinite loop in the tarfile module (GH-21454)

Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module
(CVE-2019-20907).
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Rishi 2020-07-15 13:51:00 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -429,6 +429,13 @@ class CommonReadTest(ReadTest):
with self.assertRaisesRegex(tarfile.ReadError, "unexpected end of data"):
tar.extractfile(t).read()
def test_length_zero_header(self):
# bpo-39017 (CVE-2019-20907): reading a zero-length header should fail
# with an exception
with self.assertRaisesRegex(tarfile.ReadError, "file could not be opened successfully"):
with tarfile.open(support.findfile('recursion.tar')) as tar:
pass
class MiscReadTestBase(CommonReadTest):
def requires_name_attribute(self):
pass