Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2694
Advisory Release Date: 2024-11-08 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-11-15 14:00 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2024-6232)
Affected Packages:
python3
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python3 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
i686:
python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
src:
python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.src
x86_64:
python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64