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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-6232: Security patch for python3, python38 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Nov 14, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 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.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-debugamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-libsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-testamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-tkinteramazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-debugamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-libsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-testamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-tkinteramazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python38-tools
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