Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3391-03 - An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include denial of service and traversal vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: python3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:3391-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3391
Issue date: 2024-05-28
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-6597
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Summary:
An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
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.
Security Fix(es):
* python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
* python: The zipfile module is vulnerable to zip-bombs leading to denial of service (CVE-2024-0450)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-6597
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276518
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276525