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r75149 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-09-29 14:56:31 -0700 (Tue, 29 Sep 2009) | 3 lines
Mention issue6972 in extractall docs about overwriting things outside of
the supplied path.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index d282a55..9300e05 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
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@@ -205,6 +205,13 @@
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