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SUSE: CVE-2023-26112: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 3, 2023
Added
Aug 23, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\).

**Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-python-configobjsuse-upgrade-python3-configobj
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