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poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/CVE-2026-11972.patch
Benjamin Robin (Schneider Electric) 96f1bb2af7 python3: fix CVE-2026-11972
When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode"
(mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive
parsing take exponentially longer.

(From OE-Core rev: 9c066bcd634e7b938a10c64ef1eaf322a99ec434)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Robin (Schneider Electric) <benjamin.robin@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit bbd9c82298880ab61b9befea97dfe8a0a4943836)
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
2026-07-22 21:08:54 +01:00

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From a83ebdb495a9cbd28a03675acdeda235fade90b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:13:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-151981: Make tarfile._Stream.seek break at EOF (GH-151982)
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <stan@python.org>
CVE: CVE-2026-11972
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f50bf13566189c8d0ce5a814f33eff3d89951896]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Robin <benjamin.robin@bootlin.com>
---
Lib/tarfile.py | 4 +++-
Lib/test/test_tarfile.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 83226e907e4b..c0007a78f700 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -516,7 +516,9 @@ def seek(self, pos=0):
if pos - self.pos >= 0:
blocks, remainder = divmod(pos - self.pos, self.bufsize)
for i in range(blocks):
- self.read(self.bufsize)
+ data = self.read(self.bufsize)
+ if not data:
+ break
self.read(remainder)
else:
raise StreamError("seeking backwards is not allowed")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 29719d95b6c1..8aeb2e1b1b9a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -4480,6 +4480,22 @@ def valueerror_filter(tarinfo, path):
with self.check_context(arc.open(errorlevel='boo!'), filtererror_filter):
self.expect_exception(TypeError) # errorlevel is not int
+ @support.subTests('format', [tarfile.GNU_FORMAT, tarfile.PAX_FORMAT])
+ def test_getmembers_big_size(self, format):
+ # gh-151981: A loop in seek() for streaming files tried to read the
+ # declared number of blocks even at EOF
+ tinfo = tarfile.TarInfo("huge-file")
+ tinfo.size = 1 << 64
+ bio = io.BytesIO()
+ # Write header without data
+ bio.write(tinfo.tobuf(format))
+
+ # Reset & try to get contents
+ bio.seek(0)
+ with tarfile.open(fileobj=bio, mode="r|") as tar:
+ with self.assertRaises(tarfile.ReadError):
+ tar.getmembers()
+
class OverwriteTests(archiver_tests.OverwriteTests, unittest.TestCase):
testdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testoverwrite")
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