From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:56:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention issue6972 in extractall docs about overwriting things outside of
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~437
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=657024cd26bb52f19029289beacccfcdfa9d437e;p=python

Mention issue6972 in extractall docs about overwriting things outside of
the supplied path.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index ec357bb73b..0577f10f3e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -207,6 +207,13 @@ ZipFile Objects
    be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`namelist`.  *pwd* is the password
    used for encrypted files.
 
+   .. 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 ``".."``.
+
    .. versionadded:: 2.6