Red Hat: CVE-2024-6232: python: cpython: tarfile: ReDos via excessive backtracking while parsing header values (Multiple Advisories)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
09/03/2024
09/25/2024
09/24/2024
09/25/2024
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(s)
- redhat-upgrade-platform-python
- redhat-upgrade-platform-python-debug
- redhat-upgrade-platform-python-devel
- redhat-upgrade-python-unversioned-command
- redhat-upgrade-python3
- redhat-upgrade-python3-9-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-python3-9-debugsource
- redhat-upgrade-python3-debug
- redhat-upgrade-python3-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-python3-debugsource
- redhat-upgrade-python3-devel
- redhat-upgrade-python3-idle
- redhat-upgrade-python3-libs
- redhat-upgrade-python3-test
- redhat-upgrade-python3-tkinter
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