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This is a hotfix for the PyArrow security vulnerability
CVE-2023-47248 <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-47248>
__.
We generally recommend upgrading to PyArrow 14.0.1 or later, but if you cannot upgrade, this package disables the vulnerability on older versions.
Use pip
to install:
.. code-block:: console
pip install pyarrow_hotfix
.. note::
Both pyarrow-hotfix
and pyarrow_hotfix
are accepted and point to
the same package.
pyarrow_hotfix
must be imported in your application or library code for
it to take effect:
.. code-block:: python
import pyarrow_hotfix
pyarrow_hotfix
supports all Python versions starting from Python 3.5,
and all PyArrow versions starting from 0.14.0.
pyarrow_hotfix
is a pure Python package that does not have any explicit
dependencies, and assumes you have installed pyarrow
through other means
(such as pip
or conda
).
.. code-block:: pycon
import pyarrow as pa import pyarrow_hotfix
pa.ipc.open_file('data.arrow') Traceback (most recent call last): [ ... ] RuntimeError: forbidden deserialization of 'arrow.py_extension_type': storage_type = null, serialized = b"\x80\x03cbuiltins\neval\nq\x00X\x15\x00\x00\x00print('hello world!')q\x01\x85q\x02Rq\x03.", pickle disassembly: 0: \x80 PROTO 3 2: c GLOBAL 'builtins eval' 17: q BINPUT 0 19: X BINUNICODE "print('hello world!')" 45: q BINPUT 1 47: \x85 TUPLE1 48: q BINPUT 2 50: R REDUCE 51: q BINPUT 3 53: . STOP highest protocol among opcodes = 2
Like pyarrow
, pyarrow_hotfix
is distributed under the terms of the
Apache License, version 2.0 <https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>
_.
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We found that pyarrow-hotfix demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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