CVE-2007-4559

A flaw was found in the Python tarfile module. Extracting a crafted TAR archive with the tarfile.extract or tarfile.extractall functions could lead to a directory traversal vulnerability, resulting in overwrite of arbitrary files.

The Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a Moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification.

Versions of python36:3.6/python36 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are marked as 'Not affected' as they just provide "symlinks" to the main python3 component, which provides the actual interpreter of the Python programming language.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Do not extract archives from untrusted sources with the Python tarfile module. Users of the module should add sanity checks when calling the tarfile.extract or tarfile.extractall functions.