[3.9] gh-121285: Remove backtracking when parsing tarfile headers (GH-121286) (#123641)
authorSeth Michael Larson <seth@python.org>
Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:46:01 +0000 (10:46 -0500)
committerAndrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:37:52 +0000 (14:37 +0100)
commitaf2e63bdee44963f755cd50baa9b11fb13b81644
tree6d5eff2b7aa429f676945e8d1e536cb6caeca141
parent843248ffbee246f3379cd8d14d272e3d8519644f
[3.9] gh-121285: Remove backtracking when parsing tarfile headers (GH-121286) (#123641)

* Remove backtracking when parsing tarfile headers
* Rewrite PAX header parsing to be stricter
* Optimize parsing of GNU extended sparse headers v0.0

(cherry picked from commit 34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4)

Co-authored-by: Seth Michael Larson <seth@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Kirill Podoprigora <kirill.bast9@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Gbp-Pq: Name 0022-3.9-gh-121285-Remove-backtracking-when-parsing-tarfi.patch
Lib/tarfile.py
Lib/test/test_tarfile.py