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CVE-2007-4559 Patch #1927

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Patching CVE-2007-4559

Hi, we are security researchers from the Advanced Research Center at Trellix. We have began a campaign to patch a widespread bug named CVE-2007-4559. CVE-2007-4559 is a 15 year old bug in the Python tarfile package. By using extract() or extractall() on a tarfile object without sanitizing input, a maliciously crafted .tar file could perform a directory path traversal attack. We found at least one unsantized extractall() in your codebase and are providing a patch for you via pull request. The patch essentially checks to see if all tarfile members will be extracted safely and throws an exception otherwise. We encourage you to use this patch or your own solution to secure against CVE-2007-4559. Further technical information about the vulnerability can be found in this blog.

If you have further questions you may contact us through this projects lead researcher Kasimir Schulz.

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k9ert commented Oct 18, 2022

Thank you very much for your PR. It's really appreciated from our side. Internally we reviewed your PR on the same day. In our case, the downloaded tar-file checked directly via a hardcoded sha256 hash and we can trust the packager.
This doesn't make the attack completely impossible, but it's limiting it to the extent that we haven't yet included this PR into the bug-fix-release from yesterday.

Thanks again for the PR, we'll soon change it to a more appropriate mergable form.

@k9ert k9ert merged commit 08b63f8 into cryptoadvance:master Oct 20, 2022
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