From 61df9e50ced8caf3a683ed4cad3896accde8964c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:58:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 75149 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75149 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-09-29 14:56:31 -0700 (Tue, 29 Sep 2009) | 3 lines Mention issue6972 in extractall docs about overwriting things outside of the supplied path. ........ --- Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index d282a557692..9300e05146a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -205,6 +205,13 @@ ZipFile Objects be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`namelist`. *pwd* is the password used for encrypted files. + .. warning:: + + Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection. + It is possible that files are created outside of *path*, e.g. members + that have absolute filenames starting with ``"/"`` or filenames with two + dots ``".."``. + .. versionadded:: 2.6