commit b7a688b3a40705ab4f7f7035d40ec026899c7052
author Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> Thu Jul 02 19:38:38 2015 +0200
committer Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> Thu Jul 02 19:38:38 2015 +0200
tree c61e60f49ff4a846603bbe805b1fb73c70d9be13
parent 3ef80587f01af27427fc1fcc05d8fd1726edd23d

Issue #24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only whitespace.

Lib/tarfile.py

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index e3a2bb3..6d8d36c 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@
             n = -(256 ** (len(s) - 1) - n)
     else:
         try:
-            n = int(nts(s, "ascii", "strict") or "0", 8)
+            s = nts(s, "ascii", "strict")
+            n = int(s.strip() or "0", 8)
         except ValueError:
             raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
     return n