/tarsafe

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()

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Tarsafe

Unit Tests

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.

Installation

$ pip install tarsafe

Usage

import sys

from tarsafe import TarSafe

tar = TarSafe.open(sys.argv[1], "r")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()