vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2024-6232: K000148252: Python tarfile vulnerability CVE-2024-6232

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Nov 11, 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

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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