vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-6232: Important priority package update for python3.11 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Feb 17, 2025

Description

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.
A regular expression denial of service (ReDos) vulnerability was found in Python's tarfile module. Due to excessive backtracking while tarfile parses headers, an attacker may be able to trigger a denial of service via a specially crafted tar archive.

Solution(s)

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