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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: rh-python38-python security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:6793-01
Product:            Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6793
Issue date:         2023-11-08
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2007-4559
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Summary: 

An update for rh-python38-python is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-python38-python (3.8.18), rh-python38-python-cryptography (2.8), rh-python38-python-pip (19.3.1), rh-python38-python-requests (2.22.0), rh-python38-python-setuptools (41.6.0), rh-python38-python-wheel (0.33.6).

Security Fix(es):

* python: urllib.parse url blocklisting bypass (CVE-2023-24329)

* python: TLS handshake bypass (CVE-2023-40217)

* python: tarfile module directory traversal (CVE-2007-4559)

* pypa-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)

* python-wheel: remote attackers can cause denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli (CVE-2022-40898)

* python: CPU denial of service via inefficient IDNA decoder (CVE-2022-45061)

* python-cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931)

* python-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

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-2007-4559

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important