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python: Fix of CVE-2026-11972
Type: advisorySources: OSV
- CVE-2026-11972: stop tarfile._Stream.seek() from spinning past end of stream - the loop read whole blocks according to the member size declared in the header and ignored what read() returned, so a header announcing a huge size (e.g. 2**64) kept it going against an already exhausted stream and hung any application walking an untrusted archive opened in streaming mode (mode='r|'). Backported from upstream CPython (gh-151981, GH-151982).
- Products
- python, python-debug, python-devel, python-libs, python-test, python-tools, tkinter
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-11972
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2026-11972: stop tarfile._Stream.seek() from spinning past end of stream - the loop read whole blocks according to the member size declared in the header and ignored what read() returned, so a header announcing a huge size (e.g. 2**64) kept it going against an already exhausted stream and hung any application walking an untrusted archive opened in streaming mode (mode='r|'). Backported from upstream CPython (gh-151981, GH-151982).
osv:CLSA-2026-1785844339
python
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
python-debug
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
python-devel
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
python-libs
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
python-test
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
python-tools
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
tkinter
Fixed versions: 2.7.5-94.0.1.el7_9.tuxcare.els13
Complete source record
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