A safe subclass of the TarFile class for interacting with tar files. Can be used as a direct drop-in replacement for safe usage of extractall()
Tarsafe is a drop-in replacement for the tarfile module from the standard library to safely handle the vulnerable extractall() method. Inspired by a 6 year old security bug.
$ pip install tarsafe
from tarsafe import TarSafe
tar = TarSafe.open("example.tar", "r")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()
# OR
with TarSafe.open("example.tar", "r") as tar:
tar.extractall()
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A safe subclass of the TarFile class for interacting with tar files. Can be used as a direct drop-in replacement for safe usage of extractall()
We found that tarsafe 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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