vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2024-6232: Python, PyPy: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Jun 13, 2025
Modified
Aug 13, 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.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-pypygentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-python
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