INFSA-2024:8359: python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 security update
Information about definition
Identificator: INFSA-2024:8359
Type: security
Release date: 2024-11-12 06:32:27 UTC
Information about package
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.
Vulnerabilities description
- CVE-2024-6232
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Severity level
| CVE | Score CVSS 2.0 | Score CVSS 3.x | Score CVSS 4.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
NIST — CVE-2024-6232
|
no information | 7.5 | no information |
Updated packages