Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers - The Python Package Index Blog
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The Python Package Index is introducing new restrictions to protect
Python package installers and inspectors from confusion attacks arising
from ZIP parser implementations. This has been done in response to
the discovery that the popular installer uv has a different extraction behavior
to many Python-based installers that use the ZIP parser implementation
provided by the zipfile standard library module.
Summary
ZIP archives constructed to exploit ZIP confusion att...
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