vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-6597: Python, PyPy3: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Mar 19, 2024
Added
May 6, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.

The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-pythongentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-pypy3gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-pypy3_10gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-pypy3_9
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