CVE-2026-11972 on CTRL-OS 26.05

Aliases: CVE-2026-11972

Packages: python3

Status: Plausible

Advisory Information

When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode" (mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive parsing take exponentially longer.

Updates

2026-07-07 18:40 CEST

Metadata changes:

• Status for package python3: “Plausible”

(Amended on: 2026-07-07 18:41 CEST)

2026-07-07 18:34 CEST

Metadata changes:

• Status for package python3: “New”

(Amended on: 2026-07-07 18:38 CEST)