vulnerability

IBM AIX: python_advisory17 (CVE-2024-5642): Vulnerability in python affects AIX

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 19, 2025
Added
Nov 20, 2025
Modified
Nov 20, 2025

Description

CPython 3.9 and earlier doesn't disallow configuring an empty list ("[]") for SSLContext.set_npn_protocols() which is an invalid value for the underlying OpenSSL API. This results in a buffer over-read when NPN is used (see CVE-2024-5535 for OpenSSL). This vulnerability is of low severity due to NPN being not widely used and specifying an empty list likely being uncommon in-practice (typically a protocol name would be configured).

Solution

ibm-aix-python_advisory17
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