vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-6232: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2024-09-03
Added
2024-10-01
Modified
2024-10-02

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-python3
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