From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 06:15:04 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Issue #6972: keep the warning about untrusted extraction and mention
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.4rc1~131
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f1319d81f71512b464336c778089a5fe168fef93;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #6972: keep the warning about untrusted extraction and mention
the version it was improved in.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index d2107200e03e..d82ab0633c31 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -232,9 +232,15 @@ ZipFile Objects
    be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`namelist`.  *pwd* is the password
    used for encrypted files.
 
-   .. note::
+   .. 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 ``".."``.
 
-      See :meth:`extract` note.
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.2.4
+      The zipfile module attempts to prevent that.  See :meth:`extract` note.
 
 
 .. method:: ZipFile.printdir()