Matt Bogosian added the comment:
This patch (also attached) seems to address this particular use case:
```
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py 2016-12-17 12:41:21.000000000 -0800
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py 2017-03-10 12:23:34.000000000 -0800
@@ -2347,7 +2347,7 @@
# Advance the file pointer.
if self.offset != self.fileobj.tell():
- self.fileobj.seek(self.offset - 1)
+ self.fileobj.seek(max(self.offset - 1, 0))
if not self.fileobj.read(1):
raise ReadError("unexpected end of data")
```
However, I am unfamiliar with the code, especially in light of #24259, and
haven't tested it thoroughly. Oversight is needed.
----------
keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file46717/tarfile.patch
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