Commit 89241a38 authored by Lars Gustäbel's avatar Lars Gustäbel

Warn about possible risks when extracting untrusted archives.

parent eba40650
......@@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ object, see :ref:`tarinfo-objects` for details.
reset each time a file is created in it. And, if a directory's permissions do
not allow writing, extracting files to it will fail.
.. 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:: 2.5
......@@ -353,6 +360,10 @@ object, see :ref:`tarinfo-objects` for details.
are some issues you must take care of yourself. See the description for
:meth:`extractall` above.
.. warning::
See the warning for :meth:`extractall`.
.. method:: TarFile.extractfile(member)
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