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CVE-2024-6232

Updated on 03 Sep 2024

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9 Python , AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Alpine Linux 3.22 , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 , Debian 11 , Debian 12 , Debian 13 , EL 10 , EL 6 , EL 7 , EL 8 , EL 9 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 , Ubuntu 22.04 , Ubuntu 24.04
Affected packages:
python2.7 @ 2.7.12 (+61 more)

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.

Fixes