pyarrow-hotfix

PyArrow Hotfix

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Description

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.

Installation

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.

Usage

pyarrow_hotfix must be imported in your application or library code for it to take effect:

.. code-block:: python

import pyarrow_hotfix

Supported versions

pyarrow_hotfix supports all Python versions starting from Python 3.5, and all PyArrow versions starting from 0.14.0.

Dependencies

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).

Example

.. 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

License

Like pyarrow, pyarrow_hotfix is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, version 2.0 <https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>_.