# Security update for python312

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02048-1  
Release Date: 2025-06-20T12:40:50Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1243273
  * bsc#1244032
  * bsc#1244056
  * bsc#1244059
  * bsc#1244060

  
Cross-References:

  * CVE-2024-12718
  * CVE-2025-4138
  * CVE-2025-4330
  * CVE-2025-4516
  * CVE-2025-4517

  
CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2024-12718 ( SUSE ):  5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  * CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ):  10.0
    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  * CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ):  5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  * CVE-2025-4138 ( SUSE ):  8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
  * CVE-2025-4138 ( NVD ):  7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  * CVE-2025-4330 ( SUSE ):  8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  * CVE-2025-4330 ( NVD ):  7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  * CVE-2025-4516 ( SUSE ):  5.9
    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  * CVE-2025-4516 ( SUSE ):  5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  * CVE-2025-4516 ( NVD ):  5.9
    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  * CVE-2025-4517 ( SUSE ):  7.5
    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  * CVE-2025-4517 ( SUSE ):  8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  * CVE-2025-4517 ( NVD ):  9.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

  
Affected Products:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.6
  * Python 3 Module 15-SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

  
  
An update that solves five vulnerabilities can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for python312 fixes the following issues:

python312 was updated from version 3.12.9 to 3.12.11:

  * Security issues fixed:

  * CVE-2025-4516: Fixed blocking DecodeError handling vulnerability, which
    could lead to DoS (bsc#1243273)

  * CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4517: Fixed multiple
    issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters to be bypassed using crafted
    symlinks and hard links (bsc#1244056, bsc#1244059, bsc#1244060, bsc#1244032)

  * Other changes and bugs fixed:

  * Added --single-process option to the Python test runner (regrtest).

  * Added support for text/x-rst MIME type.
  * Corrected issues in various modules.
  * Fixed bugs in the in the folding of rfc2047 encoded-words and in the folding
    of quoted strings when flattening an email message using a modern email
    policy.
  * Fixed f-string handling of lambda expressions with non-ASCII characters.
  * Fixed ipaddress.IPv6Address.reverse_pointer output according to RFC 3596.
  * Fixed parsing long IPv6 addresses with embedded IPv4 address.
  * Fixed resource leaks in gzip and multiprocessing Resource Tracker.
  * Improved IDLE's documentation display.
  * Improved the textual representation of IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in
    ipaddress.
  * ipaddress: fixed hash collisions for IPv4Network and IPv6Network objects
  * Made from **future** import barry_as_FLUFL work in more contexts.
  * Resolved potential crashes in contextvars, xml.etree.ElementTree, sqlite3,
    and the sys module.
  * Scheduled deprecation of the check_home argument in
    sysconfig.is_python_build() for Python 3.15.
  * Stop the processing of long IPv6 addresses early in ipaddress to prevent
    excessive memory consumption and a minor denial-of-service.
  * Undeprecated functional API for importlib.resources and added Anchor.
  * Updated bundled libexpat to 2.7.1
  * Updated bundled pip to version 25.0.1.
  * Updated documentation for generic classes, wheel tags, and the C API.

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.6  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2048=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2048=1

  * Python 3 Module 15-SP6  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Python3-15-SP6-2025-2048=1

## Package List:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    * python312-devel-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-tk-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-idle-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-dbm-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-curses-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-testsuite-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-debugsource-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-doc-devhelp-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-tk-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-testsuite-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-curses-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-tools-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-doc-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-core-debugsource-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-dbm-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)
    * libpython3_12-1_0-32bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-32bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-32bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-32bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-32bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-32bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
  * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)
    * python312-64bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-64bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-64bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-64bit-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-64bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-64bit-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
  * Python 3 Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * python312-tools-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-curses-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-debugsource-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-devel-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-core-debugsource-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-tk-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-tk-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * libpython3_12-1_0-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-idle-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-dbm-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-base-debuginfo-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-curses-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-dbm-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1
    * python312-3.12.11-150600.3.30.1

## References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12718.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4138.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4330.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4516.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4517.html
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243273
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244032
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244056
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244059
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244060