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Debian: CVE-2025-4516: python3.11, python3.9 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 15, 2025
Added
May 20, 2025
Modified
May 17, 2026

Description

There is an issue in CPython when using `bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")`. If you are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your usage is not affected. To work-around this issue you may stop using the error= handler and instead wrap the bytes.decode() call in a try-except catching the DecodeError.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-python3-11debian-upgrade-python3-9
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