Bug 2218876

Summary:	python-pygments: Python tarfile extraction needs change to avoid a warning (CVE-2007-4559 mitigation)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Petr Viktorin (pviktori) <pviktori>
Component:	python-pygments	Assignee:	Python Maintainers <python-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	RHEL CS Apps Subsystem QE <rhel-cs-apps-subsystem-qe>
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Version:	8.9	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
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Comment 1 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2023-07-12 13:33:59 UTC

The extraction only happens when pygments.lexers._php_builtins.py is run as a script. In this case, the script is meant to download new data and *rewrite itself*.
- No one should need to run that.
- You need to be root to rewrite the RPM-installed file.
- The CVE is mitigated by default. Users get a *warning* about possible changed (more secure) behaviour, but the tarball is extracted normally. And safely, unless the user configured a weaker policy,.

Won't fix.