[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)
committerArnaud Rebillout <arnaudr@debian.org>
Thu, 14 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000 (10:00 +0700)
commitf72d665c19c27b1618b1c08e817e04bed88e754b
tree69f30032fba6c53d43bcb2f2e9aceacddb5cd947
parent4de00430392a0686b743472c6934930a60dfc182
[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