View at Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2026-11972 end-of-life priority: Debian including 6 source packages (pypy3, python2.7, python3.11, python3.13, python3.14, python3.9), 13 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 13.
When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode" (mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive parsing take exponentially longer.