Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4421-03 - An update for the python39:3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4421-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4421
Issue date: 2024-07-09
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2022-40897
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Summary:
An update for the python39:3.9 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
Moderate. 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):
* python39:3.9/python3x-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-40897
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158559