"slippery Zips and Sticky Tar-Pits" From Python's Security Dev Seth Larson [pdf]
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The Python Software Foundation's Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a white paper on security vulnerabilities in common archive formats like ZIP and tar, and the community is sharing and acknowledging the work.
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